What's to say that there aren't other sets of numbers

>discover
Nice meme. Invent it if tou want, it will probably be isomorphic to some R^n .

>>8978960
You mean you have yet to discover?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octonion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_number
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surreal_number

God created the integers.
All else is the work of autism.

>>8978990
Actually this. Numbers are representations. 1 + 1 = 2 not because the symbols are exactly the same, but because the underlying reality is the same.

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>>8978973
Thanks

>>8979064
>underlying reality
Nice philosophy you got there

>>8978990

god created the natural numbers and some dipshit made the integers

>>8978960

It isn't about discovering them it's about constructing them

>>8978973
Not OP but those aren't what he's trying to imply. He's trying to ask why isn't there a third function to rotate in 3D like the imaginary does for 2D (and quaternions are not the answer to that because that's a 2D rotation of a 2D rotation)

He's basically asking, "are there more numbers out there that exhibit similar properties to i"