After mathematicians wondered for many years about the rational numbers, they realised there's more!

It was radical

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📅︎ Mar 17 2021
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My son asked me whether π was a rational number, even though he knows i didnt go to school...

I mean that's just not rational.

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"Dad, I know about real numbers, natural numbers and rational numbers. But what are imaginary numbers?"

"It's the numbers you use to call your imaginary girlfriend."

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📅︎ Oct 01 2019
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My girlfriend is a square root of -100

Perfect 10, but purely imaginary.

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📅︎ Mar 27 2021
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Got the whole council with this one...

I am on the city council and we had a workshop about why utility rates are lower inside the city compared to outside.

It came down to this:

  1. No study was done to show the validity of the difference.
  2. It was strictly a policy decision with an arbitrary number.
  3. The reason for this approach was simply that it is "standard in the industry" and because it is "what every other city does".

Prefacing that I was a dad so I had to say it: I suggested the rational wasn't the most sound since "just because every other city jumped off a bridge, it didn't mean I wasn't going to jump off a bridge."

Mixture of groans and laughter.

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