Why Don't Pirates Discuss Complex Numbers?
A pirate joke: pirates dismiss the imaginary axis as an old sailors' tale. They prefer to focus on R (the real numbers).
Transcript
"Why don't pirates discuss complex numbers?" [The complex plane; the real axis labeled "aka R"] Pirate with a peg leg: "Imaginary axis? Why, that's just an old sailors' tale." "They prefer to focus on ARRRRRRRRRRR"
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-09-19-why-don-t-pirates-discuss-complex-numbers/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)