Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 06, 1988

that’s a hella instinct Hobbes

Yeah!! they are born with it….

They’re born full of something…

Full of….. You uh. You see where I’m going with this.

Yes, numbers like “i” or “u” simply do not exist in any true mathematic terms, they represent whatever the equation my need them to.

A possibly imaginary tiger talking about imaginary numbers.

If I live to be eleventy-twelve, I will never understand Hobbes’ math.

For the record, there is such a. Thing as an imaginary number

I remember how excited I was when I found out there actually was such a thing as “imaginary numbers”. Took me straight back to memories of this comic.

imaginary number,i,is equal to the square root of -1

the way hobbes put it,they will write {(30)2}

94

13

I remember my high school’s math office had this strip taped to a closet door. I like Hobbes’s pose in the last panel.

I first read this when I was six. Eight years later, I found out imaginary numbers were an actual thing. My life felt like a lie.