Hands Down The Best Wikipedia Article Ever

Hands Down The Best Wikipedia Article Ever
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The perfect mathematical absurdity doesn't exi—

Behold, the imaginary right triangle! The equation i² + 1² = 0² is technically correct since i² = -1, but Pythagoras is probably rolling in his grave right now. This is what happens when complex numbers crash a geometry party uninvited. The ancient Greeks spent centuries perfecting triangles only for some 16th-century Italian mathematicians to come along and make them imaginary. It's like building a house with ghost lumber and wondering why you keep falling through the floor.

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