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Femme_physics
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Complex numbers - "parallel lines meet at infinity"? What does it mean?
We started learning about complex numbers last week. One of the first things my teacher said was that "We learned that parallel lines never meet. But as it turns out, they meet at infinity."
I'm willing to accept it (sorta...even though it's rather bewildering). But, I mainly want to know how does that mathmatically relate to complex numbers? Where in complex numbers does it show that parallel lines meet at infinity? Is there a graph that shows parallel line meeting in a complex numbers chart, or something?
We started learning about complex numbers last week. One of the first things my teacher said was that "We learned that parallel lines never meet. But as it turns out, they meet at infinity."
I'm willing to accept it (sorta...even though it's rather bewildering). But, I mainly want to know how does that mathmatically relate to complex numbers? Where in complex numbers does it show that parallel lines meet at infinity? Is there a graph that shows parallel line meeting in a complex numbers chart, or something?
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