Think of the smallest number greater than 0...

[The Ceej]

Without them, electrical engineering wouldn't exist - taking complex mathematics away from that is like taking half of a chef's ingredients away.

Yeah, if you take the squizzleberries and xarkon beans away from the chef, he surely can't make his imaginary dish anymore. You can teach computers to use concepts that don't exist as long as these concepts have a solid set of rules to their use. My brother's original major was in engineering, so he knows how "important" imaginary numbers are. Obviously not important enough for his classes to learn them. Even if his students do plan becoming electrical engineers.

Ceej is being very specific with his interpretation of numerics when he says that negation cannot exist.

Yes the amount of debt you have is measured in a positive value. Yes the amount of assets you have is measured in a positive value.

Well, I'm glad someone is seeing my point past the idea that certain mathematics are bogus. It does help you devise a better argument against me if you know what I'm saying rather than simply shouting back trite rhetoric that old mathematics professors use over again.

The net worth is a concept that is derived by removing one value from the other. It's taught in grade 11 accounting, and in theory, in grade 1 math.

They have the same unit (money) so they can be related If you add what you owe to what you have, you end up having less, and the only way that happens is if what you owe is negative.

So, by your logic, if Wal-Mart had 18 basketballs in stock and Target had 23 basketballs on backorder, stores would have negative five baksetballs. It doesn't work that way. These are two different stores. I have two different accounts.

Now, if you'll excuse me, all this math is making my head hurt. I'm going to drop out of this conversation. Whether or not I'll be back, I don't know. We'll see.