another student in that class tried to call me the fuck out
we were shown a program up on the screen that had an input field that just said "Number". the professor typed in "1" and it printed the parity, primality, square root and prime factors. with no spec we were asked to take a few minutes to think of test cases for it and then we shared our ideas
i said that since the input just says "number" i wanted to see what it did if i put in a complex number. this other student said "computers can't handle complex numbers"
"uh, they certainly can."
"not consumer PCs"
"i've done it, there's libraries for them. like there's a python library that just takes care of it for you"
"you mean like, with an imaginary part?"
"yes"
it looked like i blew his goddamn mind
until that last question i thought maybe he was getting it confused with qbits, but even then you can emulate a quantum computer, it just doesn't have any of the benefits of quantum computing
@Rosemary i don't knoooow