• bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
    17·
    4 months ago

    Immediately the new branch gets saturated with numbers that weren’t on the number line before. This is induced demand. The new branch made congestion even worse

    • chumbalumberEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      Isn’t this referring to rail lines? I’ve never heard roads referred to as lines.

    • Goun@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      I would say the imaginary numbers line goes somewhere else, is not for reducing congestion, imho

      • Meron35@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

        The real numbers are the main bypass, the imaginaries are the orbitals which interchange with the positive and negative reals