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Well meaningful as soon as someone finds a donkapple.


Not at all. Complex numbers are used to solve real world engineering problems, despite the fact that you cannot "find" any complex numbers in nature.


I thought quantum mechanics was riddled with complex numbers? What is it about QM which means we're "using" complex numbers without having "found" them in nature?

(I realise that this is kindof a horrible question to try and answer on an internet forum, please try your best physicists ;)




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