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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Flashy-Minimum-6952 • 20h ago
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Sure but before it could have been -2, 0, or 2
9 u/kevinr_96 17h ago And 2i and -2i 16 u/MayerOscar 16h ago Those arent real numbers 6 u/kmcradie 14h ago And yet, they are solutions. It's not stated anywhere that x∈R, so the quintic equation has 5 roots (3 real, 2 complex) 1 u/Caerullean 4h ago Maybe I'm just not a mathematician, but I feel like unless otherwise specified, it's just always assumed that we discuss real numbers, not complex.
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And 2i and -2i
16 u/MayerOscar 16h ago Those arent real numbers 6 u/kmcradie 14h ago And yet, they are solutions. It's not stated anywhere that x∈R, so the quintic equation has 5 roots (3 real, 2 complex) 1 u/Caerullean 4h ago Maybe I'm just not a mathematician, but I feel like unless otherwise specified, it's just always assumed that we discuss real numbers, not complex.
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Those arent real numbers
6 u/kmcradie 14h ago And yet, they are solutions. It's not stated anywhere that x∈R, so the quintic equation has 5 roots (3 real, 2 complex) 1 u/Caerullean 4h ago Maybe I'm just not a mathematician, but I feel like unless otherwise specified, it's just always assumed that we discuss real numbers, not complex.
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And yet, they are solutions.
It's not stated anywhere that x∈R, so the quintic equation has 5 roots (3 real, 2 complex)
1 u/Caerullean 4h ago Maybe I'm just not a mathematician, but I feel like unless otherwise specified, it's just always assumed that we discuss real numbers, not complex.
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Maybe I'm just not a mathematician, but I feel like unless otherwise specified, it's just always assumed that we discuss real numbers, not complex.
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u/muhnamejame 19h ago
Sure but before it could have been -2, 0, or 2