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Complex Numbers

by Robert Waltz

Rated: 18+ · Book · Personal · #1196512

Not for the faint of art.

Complex Numbers

A complex number is expressed in the standard form a + bi, where a and b are real numbers and i is defined by i^2 = -1 (that is, i is the square root of -1). For example, 3 + 2i is a complex number.

The bi term is often referred to as an imaginary number (though this may be misleading, as it is no more "imaginary" than the symbolic abstractions we know as the "real" numbers). Thus, every complex number has a real part, a, and an imaginary part, bi.

Complex numbers are often represented on a graph known as the "complex plane," where the horizontal axis represents the infinity of real numbers, and the vertical axis represents the infinity of imaginary numbers. Thus, each complex number has a unique representation on the complex plane: some closer to real; others, more imaginary. If a = b, the number is equal parts real and imaginary.

Very simple transformations applied to numbers in the complex plane can lead to fractal structures of enormous intricacy and astonishing beauty.

http://www.ddewey.net/mandelbrot/

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tj-turkey-jobble-jobble-hard-J

about 5 hours ago
In response to "It's Hard Not To Scare"

Smarter mice? Just what we need!

Wordsmitty ✍️

about 11 hours ago
In response to "It's Hard Not To Scare"

"Friendly neighborhood spider-goat." Isn't Marvel working on that for release in '26. - "Yes, it's cute, MJ, but you shouldn't ..."

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tj-turkey-jobble-jobble-hard-J

a day ago
In response to "Revisied: "Inevitable""

I can think of far more absurd ways to die, but most of them involve alcohol and maybe prostitutes... This statement reminded me of the passing of a friends grandfather; he died of a heart attack while intoxicated and with a prostitute, Viagra also aided in his heart failure.

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Turkey DrumStik

a day ago
In response to "She Said Spatchcock"

You can spatchcock, or butterfly, any bird.

That bit might only be funny if you're familiar with British slang.

It's really a pity that the British national team's mascot is a lion and not a rooster. Ironically, that's the French national team's mascot, which did make for a pretty good joke during the Olympics.

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Turkey DrumStik

a day ago
In response to "Cave In"

tj-turkey-jobble-jobble-hard-J

-Yeah, those instigators from Illinois and Texas would really degrade the standards of Hell.

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Turkey DrumStik

a day ago
In response to "Revisied: "Inevitable""

Though I clicked on it to check, I no longer follow that site and want nothing to do with them, which is why we haven't had any LitHub links in over a year.

Well, now my curiosity is piqued. What happened on this front?

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🌕 HuntersMoon

a day ago
In response to "Revisied: "Inevitable""

Let's get real. Once you're dead, you really don't care do you...

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tj-turkey-jobble-jobble-hard-J

Nov 2, 2024 at 3:45pm
In response to "She Said Spatchcock"

Wading under a hot sun can also cause overcooked breasts and soggy thighs.

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🌕 HuntersMoon

Nov 2, 2024 at 10:30am
In response to "She Said Spatchcock"

In my experience, exposing the breast doesn't make it dryer. Just saying'

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tj-turkey-jobble-jobble-hard-J

Nov 1, 2024 at 1:30pm
In response to "Cave In"

I think it was one of the gateways, but after the riots, the denizens of Hell closed that portal for fear of what might get in.

November 4, 2024 at 8:17am

#1079484

It's Hard Not To Scare

This Cracked article might have been better to post before Halloween, but remember, tomorrow is Election Day here. Scary stuff is still in our future.

Scientific Studies That Sound Like the Beginning of a Horror Movie
Two words: Spider goats

I have often looked at articles about what some scientists are doing and think: "You fools! Have you never seen a horror movie?"

Animal testing is an unfortunate but necessary part of certain scientific fields — that is, until the scientists decide to go all Dr. Moreau on some rats. Then it’s just weird. It’s like they’ve never seen a single monster movie.

See? I'm not the only one. (Sometimes, "horror" gets replaced with "science fiction," but usually, horror is still a subgenre.)

5 The Spider Goat

Spider silk is super useful for a lot of different things, but there’s a reason you don’t see a lot of spider farms.

I saw a video recently on how silkworms do their thing. Silkworms are larval moths, and generally unpleasant to look at, but they lack the visceral horror of arachnids. Still, spiders are cool... from a distance.

In 2012, Utah State University geneticists rectified that problem by splicing spider DNA into goat embryos, who eventually grew up to lactate spider silk.

Friendly neighborhood spider-goat.

4 The Man Mice

In 2013, scientists at the University of Rochester implanted human glial brain cells into the brains of newborn mice, who became much smarter and learned faster than other mice as a result.

"What are we going to do tomorrow night, Brain?"

Also, anyone who has ever seen a horror movie should have implored them to stop.

3 Acid Elephant

In the ‘60s, experimenting with LSD was all the rage, in both the scientific and “hanging out in your friend’s cousin’s basement” senses of the word. By 1962, scientists at the University of Oklahoma had run out of ideas until one of them asked, “What if we gave an elephant a thousand doses?”

Which makes me wonder: if we see pink elephants, what do elephants see? Gray humans?

2 Magnetized Cockroaches

“Can you turn a cockroach into a magnet?” is a question you only ask after you’ve been seriously scientifically jaded...

...or on a serious acid trip.

1 Zombie Dogs

Believe it or not, we do know how to bring once-living creatures back from the dead.

Thus shifting the definition of "dead." Used to be: heart stopped = death, but then CPR came along, and now doctors have to pretty much guess when the point of no return occurs.

Cornish hoped to try his method on humans, specifically a recently executed prisoner, but the government forbade it not out of any fear of a zombie apocalypse but because they weren’t sure how double jeopardy laws applied to a revived corpse.

Seems like an important legal loophole to fix.

Add to this mix the penchant of certain scientists to revive millennia-old bacteria found in ice cores, and you definitely have the makings of a horror movie. But still not as scary as tomorrow's election.

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