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Re:How the number zero was ‘discovered’ by schoen on Thursday December 08, 2016 @07:06PM (#13135554)
> but imaginary literally means not occurring in nature

I would be tempted to say "pictured", "in a picture".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/imago#Latin

But imago also has a lot of other meanings, and so "ghostly" and "conceptual" are also possibilities. :-)

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