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		empath75 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mathematical secrets of ancient tablet unlocked af... He doesn't work with imaginary numbers, either. He treats complex numbers as matrices of rationals.

numpy-thagoras 5 months ago [–]

Which is the same thing for all intents and purposes.

An ultrafinitist is still allowed to call that 'i'.

dhosek 5 months ago | [–]

Still kind of freaked out that a Möbius transform can be expressed as a matrix multiplication.

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