• mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    5 months ago

    Yep. A vertical line segment above A with length 𝑖 is a horizontal line segment to the left that’s 1 unit long. So, the diagram needs a “not to scale” caveat like a map projection, but there’s nothing actually wrong with it, and the triangle’s BC side is 0 units long.

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      5 months ago

      i= √(-1) = imaginary number (1^2) + (√(-1))^2 = 1 - 1 = 0 7

      At least, I thought that was the idea in the OP.

      Also, for your version, on a number line or Cartesian plane, the distance from -1 to 1 is 2, not 0

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        Also, for your version, on a number line or Cartesian plane, the distance from -1 to 1 is 2, not 0

        Yeah. I cheated. You have to either deliberately misunderstand how to measure vectors or else drop a minus sign for it to work my way.

        (Or, from my previous example, you could just frame it as you’re getting the hypotenuse by measuring between |AB| and -|AC|𝑖 instead of the way I framed it – but that makes it more obvious that you’re fishing for a particular answer.)