What does Google's reaction to exp(pi i) tell you about the people who work there?
Googlex people
ferreira on 2006-09-25T19:38:59
That they were not sleeping in the classes of complex math?
Not quite good enough
Tony Finch on 2006-09-25T21:06:46
The fact that exp((pi/2)*i) doesn't evaluate to the right thing shows me that they are into agile methods and extreme programming.
Re:Not quite good enough
pjm on 2006-09-25T23:01:26
Eh? Works perfectly for me (as does, say, exp((pi/4)*i).
Re:Not quite good enough
Tony Finch on 2006-09-25T23:26:53
Hmm, you are right, and I have forgotten how radians work. How sad.
Bot war
tsee on 2006-09-26T06:30:04
Clearly, it means that we can now write a little screen scraping code, put that into dispy and get to start purl-dispy flooding in the most evil way that's possibly conceivable.
Steffen
exp(pi i)
n1vux on 2006-09-27T15:19:37
That they're smarter than the average bear.
Although I prefer the form that unites ALL the major constants,
e**(pi*i) + 1 = 0
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That new skool-marm is fillin' the chilluns' heads with nonsense. Why, everyone knows pie are ROUND; CORNBREAD are SQUARE.
