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Seeing Circles, Sines, and Signals

77 points · 9 comments · akkartik

  1. srean · · focus · HN ↗
    Imagine a civilization that discovers complex numbers before naturals, with naturals showing up to count the turns.

    If hexagons can claim to be bestagons complex numbers have a legit claim at best numbers.

    1. tel · · focus · HN ↗
      A huge amount of math unlocked the minute mathematicians started taking complex numbers seriously. Ideally they would be an earlier discovery, I agree!
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