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Re:Ask HN: What is your go to idiot-filter question in inter... by cameronh90 on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @05:25PM (#33901216)
Do you work in a particularly mathematical field?

I've been working in tech for 15 years now, and can't remember any time that I've needed to use imaginary numbers. The only reason I still remember anything about them is because my hobby is electronics.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your go to idiot-filter question in inter... by anyfoo on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @08:15PM (#33902817)
I have to agree. I love imaginary numbers, the complex exponential, both the s-plane and the z-plane. Because, like yours, my hobby is electronics.

Neither as a low level system programmer, nor in any of my high level programming jobs a long long time ago, have I ever needed imaginary numbers. Privately yes, but that's just when writing code for my hobby.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your go to idiot-filter question in inter... by olivermuty on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @05:35PM (#33901322)
I ise imaginary numbers every day as a developer!

«Yes thats a quick 15 minute fix»

That number 15 turns out to be very imaginary most of the time :(

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