A cave in Romania that was sealed for 5.5M years

Re:A cave in Romania that was sealed for 5.5M years by dexterdog on Thursday May 12, 2016 @09:40AM (#11683269)

What about imaginary numbers?

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Re:A cave in Romania that was sealed for 5.5M years by pmalynin on Thursday May 12, 2016 @09:55AM (#11683354)

You can still compare them, e.g two numbers could or couldn't be equal. Equality is a form of comparison

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Re:A cave in Romania that was sealed for 5.5M years by jungans on Thursday May 12, 2016 @11:17AM (#11683991)

wouldn't this make all things comparable?

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Re:A cave in Romania that was sealed for 5.5M years by taotao670 on Thursday May 12, 2016 @11:57AM (#11684334)

Except apples and oranges apparently.

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Re:A cave in Romania that was sealed for 5.5M years by DonHopkins on Thursday May 12, 2016 @12:52PM (#11684878)

You can compare apples and oranges alphabetically.

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Re:A cave in Romania that was sealed for 5.5M years by wtetzner on Thursday May 12, 2016 @04:21PM (#11686464)

As far as I can tell, it's not that you can't compare apples and oranges, it's just often misleading.

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Re:A cave in Romania that was sealed for 5.5M years by MichaelBurge on Thursday May 12, 2016 @02:07PM (#11685474)

You don't even have to do that: Just well-order the universe and use the resulting ordering for your less-than operator.

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Re:A cave in Romania that was sealed for 5.5M years by ZenoArrow on Friday May 13, 2016 @06:48AM (#11689621)

1 != sqrt(-1). That's an example of a comparison between a real number and an imaginary number.

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