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You clearly can't have 2i + 3 dollars, so by that logic, complex numbers aren't real numbers.

Your analogy is off. With number theory, even if no one had an external use for it, progress was (is) made, new theorems were proved, so time was not wasted in that regard. The pro…

Not really. This is about being able to access the specific papers written; it is not about being able to read an aggregate of the research without necessarily being able to look a…

Then you choose "Other UNIX Based".

Important to whom? What people find remarkable and notable varies wildly. What may be notable to one group (say the residents of X-town may find the mayoral election notable) might…

I'm curious to see the smooth infinitesimal analysis approach to complex analysis. Using the limit definition (the dreaded epsilon-deltas), you get the correct definition of contin…

That just pushes the problem back to whether perfect circles can exist in reality.

"This example uses the simplest possible set of prime number — 1, 3, and 7." 1 is not a prime number. Also, the "simplest" possible set of primes would be 2, 3, and 5.

The "Power" section made me think of Blub. http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

If you (re)define a word to be sufficiently broad, it's particularly difficult to find positive aspects to it.

I think there's some merit to this proposal, but it's too riddled with an infatuation with a certain brand of Christian monasticism for me to separate out what is good and what is …

I cannot be the only person who thought this would be about the free software movement (e.g. GNU) rather than the movement towards software being released gratis .

In his defense (despite an apparent lack of understanding of what "socialism" actually means), the author wasn't talking about state socialism, which isn't the only form of sociali…