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God created the real numbers

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136 points Bogdanp | 2 comments | 29 Aug 25 15:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.42s | source
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tempodox ◴[30 Aug 25 10:40 UTC] No.45073556[source]▶
You mean, she didn’t create the complex numbers?
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1. ndsipa_pomu ◴[30 Aug 25 10:42 UTC] No.45073568[source]▶
She must have as the universe seems to run on rules that need negative and complex numbers (also irrationals). Just because humans took a while to discover them doesn't mean that they weren't always existing.
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2. tempodox ◴[30 Aug 25 10:47 UTC] No.45073593[source]▶
Agreed. I was just wondering about the reductive title, since the reals are a strict subset of the complex.