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		gowld 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mathematicians disagree on the essential structure... It depends on what that "other way" is, and if it has a different structure, making it a different thing. What's special about C is that it's almost a completely unified and uniform view of algebra of analysis, but not quite.

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nyeah 4 days ago [–]

Exactly. So I feel like all the article really says is that "Complex numbers" doesn't necessarily tell you everything you need to know. It depends on what you're doing with them.

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