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Whenever you try to cross-breed an apple tree with a donkey, you get nonsense. But for convenience, whatever the offspring is, we may call it a donkapple. Tha
by Eleutheria 13y ago
Whenever you try to cross-breed an apple tree with a donkey, you get nonsense.
But for convenience, whatever the offspring is, we may call it a donkapple.
That's they beauty of math.
- noonespecial 13y agoThe utility of math is that you can then do a bunch of calculations with donkapples and at the end, get a meaningful real-world answer.
- LanceH 13y agoWell meaningful as soon as someone finds a donkapple.
- dagw 13y agoNot at all. Complex numbers are used to solve real world engineering problems, despite the fact that you cannot "find" any complex numbers in nature.
- JonnieCache 13y agoI thought quantum mechanics was riddled with complex numbers? What is it about QM which means we're "using" complex numbers without having "found" them in nature? (I realise that this is kindof a horrible question to try and answer on an internet forum, please try your best physicists ;)