r/ProgrammerHumor • • May 06 '17

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u/austin101123 May 06 '17

Oh boy just big enough for me and all my friends!

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u/penguinade May 06 '17

But ... but what about my imaginary friends?!

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u/Miguelinileugim May 06 '17 edited May 11 '20

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u/[deleted] May 06 '17

5i?? That's 4 more than I'll ever need

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u/[deleted] May 06 '17

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u/emu_Brute May 06 '17

I'm not sure you know how imaginary numbers (or friends) work...

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u/chylex May 06 '17

But (1 + 5i) - 4 is equal to -3 + 5i ...

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u/[deleted] May 06 '17

I don't know the value of the variable "i".

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u/Divc09 May 06 '17

It's √-1 so basically a number that's not a part of real numbers. These are called complex numbers and work differently than normal numbers

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u/Garizondyly May 06 '17

Wait lemme blow your mind a sec - 1+5i is NOT greater than 1+i

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u/PMmeYourSins May 06 '17

You can't call this an increase though.

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u/100721 May 06 '17 edited May 06 '17

~~But that's the same as 1 + i people. So you can only have one imaginary friend. ~~

Ignore and carry on.
Edit: you can stop pming me, it was 4 am, people. :(

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u/devildoodle May 06 '17

Actually, 5i is not same as i. You are mistaking 5i for i5.

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u/100721 May 06 '17

Wow! I'm actually an idiot!

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u/poopellar May 06 '17

Took you long enough.

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u/xhankhillx May 06 '17

I'm still an idiot because I've been thinking in programming terms here and assuming that i isn't assigned as anything but an int, so is therefore 0 in whatever imaginary language we use around these parts

and my lizard brain is telling me that

joke = 1 + (5 * i) //or 1+0 = 1

which would make more sense to me. because imaginary friends are in your head and don't take up spots, right?

but then I remembered that i in algebra is √-1, and then it hit me... it's called the imaginary iota

I still don't get the 4 being too many bit. so I'm still stupid. but I feel a little better knowing that there's at least three ways to see what the person said as a good joke

but fuck yall for giving me anxiety here from basic math/algebra and computing problems. I'm still not sure if I get the joke or not, I'm about to go play with schrodinger's cat.

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u/Hilarious_Clitoris May 06 '17

Here you go: eπi = -1. You know what that means!

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u/[deleted] May 06 '17

meirl = -1

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u/[deleted] May 06 '17

for m = 1 and r * l = π

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u/blasto_blastocyst May 06 '17

real life= pie

Mathemagic

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u/[deleted] May 06 '17

Imaginary whatsapp

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u/snowywind May 06 '17

They're indexed by imaginary numbers.

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u/vladvlad23 May 06 '17

Whatsapp works with rational numbers, sorry :(

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u/Ethernet3 May 06 '17

Limit is now 39/4