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It’s not true. The joke is that the 8 gets rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise which turns it into an infinity symbol.
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Unless you’re learning some really advanced stuff I’ve never heard of, no I’m pretty sure it’s counterclockwise as that’s the direction angles are measured on a unit circle.
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I was just visualizing it in my head, but now I realized I had put imaginary on x and real on y. My coordinate system was flipped.