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If it wasn't in an encyclopedia, you just trusted word of mouth. (startrek.website)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Teacher should have shown you how a number line extends forever in both directions (no reason to think she should have known about imaginary numbers making it extend orthogonally as well)

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The teacher probably had no idea what negative numbers were, and if they did, had no training on how to explain that to a six-year-old.