Ad4mWayn3@sh.itjust.works to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 20 days agoWhat is your favorite math constant that is NOT a real number?message-squaremessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up153arrow-down13
arrow-up150arrow-down1message-squareWhat is your favorite math constant that is NOT a real number?Ad4mWayn3@sh.itjust.works to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 20 days agomessage-square10fedilink
minus-squareAbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·20 days agoε, the base of the dual numbers. It’s a nonzero hypercomplex number that squares to zero, enabling automatic differentiation.
minus-squarepalordrolap@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up6·19 days agoCame here to say this, but since it’s already here, I’ll throw in a bonus mind-melting fact: ε itself has no square root in the dual numbers.
ε, the base of the dual numbers.
It’s a nonzero hypercomplex number that squares to zero, enabling automatic differentiation.
Came here to say this, but since it’s already here, I’ll throw in a bonus mind-melting fact: ε itself has no square root in the dual numbers.