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It's not just imaginary numbers, the ultrafinitist rabbit hole runs deep. But there's nothing inherently wrong with it, it's just a different set of axioms than everyone else uses. With those constraints you can still do meaningful things by other means (checkout his rational trigonometry stuff), at the expense of more cumbersomeness.



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