As long as you're here, I wonder if you'd help me solve a little problem. What is the square root of negative one?
What storyline is this?
Female codebreakers helped win World War II. Learn your fucking history, Benny.
Well... negative one equals i times i. Which is the same as the square root of negative one times the square root of negative one, right?
And negative one times negative one should be equal to the principal square root of one.
But... negative one and positive one can't be the same thing.
Theoretically, the real part of the non-trivial zeros... is one half, which would mean...
[Techs continue debating] What's the point of this little exercise?
If we could prove it, we could confirm that the error term and negative one times negative one should be equal to the principal square root of one. But negative one and positive one can't be the same thing.
The square root of negative x is equal to i times the square root of x for any x greater than or equal to zero.
Wait. What?
[Astounded at her ability to launch two techs into passionate debating] Fuck me!
Not likely, darling. Right now, we've got work to do.
I don't... I don't understand. How did you do that?
This game is a replica of our world, but it has limited processing power. Imagine one of your dimwitted romantic conquests. Undeniably beautiful, but built for one purpose only. Ask her to do more than part her legs, she gets confused.
You overtaxed the system. What happens if you add more complexity?
Let's find out, shall we? Come on.
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