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Complex Numbers

by Robert Waltz

Rated: 18+ · Book · Personal · #1196512

Not for the faint of art.

Complex Numbers

A complex number is expressed in the standard form a + bi, where a and b are real numbers and i is defined by i^2 = -1 (that is, i is the square root of -1). For example, 3 + 2i is a complex number.

The bi term is often referred to as an imaginary number (though this may be misleading, as it is no more "imaginary" than the symbolic abstractions we know as the "real" numbers). Thus, every complex number has a real part, a, and an imaginary part, bi.

Complex numbers are often represented on a graph known as the "complex plane," where the horizontal axis represents the infinity of real numbers, and the vertical axis represents the infinity of imaginary numbers. Thus, each complex number has a unique representation on the complex plane: some closer to real; others, more imaginary. If a = b, the number is equal parts real and imaginary.

Very simple transformations applied to numbers in the complex plane can lead to fractal structures of enormous intricacy and astonishing beauty.

http://www.ddewey.net/mandelbrot/

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Turkey DrumStik

about 4 hours ago
In response to "Revisited: "Plus Ça Change...""

Hm. One thing that might be different. I might not be so completely, utterly done with approximately half of the population of the US.

Even if that had been the case, I'd be completely and utterly done now.

I might still have some tiny thread of hope for the future.

Let's see... nope. All gone.

By coincidence, my latest journal entry ends up critiquing these points (and pretty heavily, to boot).

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tj-turkey-jobble-jobble-hard-J

about 22 hours ago
In response to "Pursuit"

My grandmother used to say, "Pursuing happiness is like a dog chasing it's own tail."

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🌕 HuntersMoon

a day ago
In response to "Pursuit"

Happiness is reading your ramblings daily. True happiness is posting a snarky response.

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Robert Waltz

Nov 20, 2024 at 2:54pm
In response to "Powers of Three"

🌕 HuntersMoon

- that's pretty much what quantum computing is, from what I've read.

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Brandiwyn🎶

Nov 20, 2024 at 2:32pm
In response to "Losing Weight Is Easy"

Wordsmitty ✍️

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🌕 HuntersMoon

Nov 20, 2024 at 1:20pm
In response to "Powers of Three"

With binary, it's either on or off. Wouldn't ternary introduce Schodenger's Cat? On, off, or both?

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Turkey DrumStik

Nov 19, 2024 at 7:43pm
In response to "Paramount Purpose"

I suspect old web filter attempts

would have combusted when confronted with this article.

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tj-turkey-jobble-jobble-hard-J

Nov 19, 2024 at 4:04pm
In response to "Losing Weight Is Easy"

Some of them break out in hives if you ask them to add 10% to something.

Yesterday I purchased an item that cost $6.42 after tax was affixed by the register. I handed the cashier a ten dollar bill and watched as she placed it in the cash register, which like most now days, showed her how much change to return. She had to try three times to count out the proper amount, and as I was leaving commented to the bagger, "Why do people have to pay with cash, don't they know how hard it makes my job?"

I didn't say anything, but was trying desperately not to break out in hysterical laughter.

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🌕 HuntersMoon

Nov 19, 2024 at 9:28am
In response to "Paramount Purpose"

At your age, Bob, take heart in the fact that it can be restored...

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Wordsmitty ✍️

Nov 18, 2024 at 12:34pm
In response to "Losing Weight Is Easy"

This brings up the old question of whether your weight changes when you inhale a helium balloon to make your voice higher.

Maybe this has to do with the difference of a mug of beer vs a tankard of ale.

The universe has so many weighty/massive questions.

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October 30, 2024 at 9:37am

#1079162

We're Not Wordy

From Cracked, an extraordinarily important article:

14 Groanworthy Puns From r/Jokes That Will Make You Ashamed of the Entire English Language

Puns are the highest form of humor, though the joy of them comes not from an audience's response, but from the punster watching the audience's response. And we have to watch carefully, lest one of them yeet something harder than a rotten tomato at us.

But there are two things about puns that I don't like: 1) When someone steals one of mine, even inadvertently; and 2) when someone comes up with one that I really should have, but didn't.

Such is the case with the second one at the link. Because it's Cracked, it's a countdown list, so it's the one numbered 13.

13. My girlfriend is the square root of negative 100. She’s a perfect 10, but also imaginary

Our relationship is complex.

See? See? May the creator of that one be darned to the grayest middle parts of Heck.

Obviously, I'm not going to reproduce all of them here. But this one made me laugh:

6. I told my husband he was awful at directions

He got so mad that he packed his bags and right.

Now, I should come up with a really witty pun of my own to wrap up this entry. I should, but I'm coming up empty. My muse is on vacation. So none of us get to be a-mused.

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