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Fuck geometry (lemm.ee)
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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

As the other guy said, you cannot have imaginary distances.

Incorrect. There are complex valued metric spaces

And even if we assume real valued metrics, then i usually represents the unit vector (0,1) which has distance real 1.

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's NOT a metric. That's a measure. Two wholly different things.

[–] diaphanous 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It can be a pseudometric

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

That's more related to a metric but it still can't be complex valued and it's still not a measure.