Imaginary number

ok but what happens when you want to find like idk how many pixels the image has when you scale it
and then like there's an imaginary number involved

or like circles and shit

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you win

Okay, but what are numbers? You're looking at it too much from a practical aspect, rather than an abstract POV.

Numbers are a way for us to precisely describe things. If I told you A was equal to A amount of goods.

Consider this, if we weren't use the decimal system and maybe we were using a number system, such as the hexadecimal number system. Where A1 is equal to 161 amount of things.

The reason I keep saying things is because this is why we developed math. We start using mathematics to describe abstract forms precisely, we used it to precisely describe the quantity of the goods we had to sell and the cost of said goods. What is 1? It's a number we made up, 1 could literally have been a letter, a symbol for all we care.

besides, sqrt(-1) isn't entirely accurate anyway

but that's not correct, [math]\sqrt{-1}=\pm i[/math]

"Imaginary" is a misnomer, they're actually "complex" numbers.

They're the imaginary parts of a complex numbers

it is. either works.
sqrt(-1) means you pick either one and stick to that choice. they're literally the same

Kilobytes aren't numbers.