Why do they call Imaginary numbers imaginary when in fact the

Jaden, is that you?

Clearly, historical reasons. The model and use as describing rotation in a 2d plane came later than their practical use in solving polynomial equations.

I don't even believe in factions or negative numbers

Rene Descartes called them imaginary first place. Do you think you are smarter than him?

>>8666897

It's just a name. Most maths fags these days call them Complex Numbers because they're fed up with idiots "HURR U MEN DEY NO EXIST" or "DURR AL NOMBAS IS IMAGINTREE"

>>8666897
What an unfunny, unoriginal comic

>>8667022
>Most maths fags these days [do X] because [Y]
Citation needed.
Don't give explanations presented as facts when it's just what makes sense to you and your feels

>>8667022
Complex and imaginary numbers aren't the same thing

>>8666897
From what I know, the imaginary numbers were being talked about since the 15th century and were properly invented I think about the 17th century.

This is clearly the reason. Before the 18/19th century revolution of Set Theory and Logic, people were under the delusion that mathematics is something "existed" and were something we discovered, not that we merely invented.

Basically, back then mathematicians did not have high enough IQs.

>>8667085
Imaginary numbers are part of complex numbers.
You just do 0 + a*i

>>8666973
This

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>>8666973

>>8667970
>if a is a member of b than a=b

>>8666897
IIRC the guy who coined the name later came to regret it, but the term already stuck.

It's more a play on words than anything else. There is no "real number" [math]x[/math] such that [math]x^2-1=0[/math], so we "imagine" one instead.

>>8668562
kek

>>8668562
except for oh I don't know [math]x=\pm 1[/math] you fucking brainlet