Re: Pi (was Carl Sagan's Contact)

From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Sun Mar 10 2002 - 03:17:43 MST


Sorry, I just worked it using some other identities and then spot checked the
Web for Euler. You are right, I was misremembering e to the pi i as e to the
pi to the i. The mind is the second thing to... umm, what was I saying?

Andrew Clough wrote:
> No, it really is e ^ (i * pi) = (e ^ i) * ( e ^ pi) = -1 and let me tell
> you its darn useful for solving second order differential equations (as I'm
> learning this semester).

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                     butler a t comp - lib . o r g
I am not here to have an argument. I am here as part of a civilization.
                           Sometimes I forget.


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