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@smbccomics · Twitter · 2026-09-05 15:30 UTC

They actually say modulus, but journalists dumb it down. COMIC ◆ https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/imagine-2 PATREON ◆ https://www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersmith STORE ◆ https://smbc-store.myshopify.com/ #comics

3-panel SMBC comic update. A man wearing glasses stands at a podium, declaring: "at last we've overthrown the economists! From now on the nation's finances shall be run by mathematicians!" Shortly after, the same mathematician declares: "as of today, money will be denominated in complex numbers. The public's long wait for an algebraically closed currency is at an end!" The next panel shows a news article headline: "ECONOMY CRASHES - Nation's money accidentally rotated 90 degrees, now imaginary. Mathematicians (quoted): "calm down, absolute value unchanged."