From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Sat Mar 09 2002 - 18:21:30 MST
I offer a tiny correction:
Ken Clements wrote:
> The fact that pi is the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle
> in flat Euclidean geometry, is just one of its manifold properties. One of the
> most far-reaching was discovered by Leonhard Euler circa 1736. He showed that
> if you started with the constant e and raised that to the power of the product
> of pi and the square root of -1, then added one, you got zero.
I think you meant "...and raised that to the power of (pi raised to the power
of the square root of -1),...".
MMB
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