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To: fhayek

At least it’s not an imaginary number.

Now those gave me tons of trouble in Math 161.


21 posted on 03/14/2015 8:17:42 AM PDT by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: PeteB570

Well, to be fair, the term ‘imaginary’ number was a poor choice of a name. Imaginary numbers are just as real as ‘real’ numbers.


23 posted on 03/14/2015 8:18:58 AM PDT by fhayek
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To: PeteB570
From the Euler Identity:
eiπ + 1 = 0

it follows that-

π = 2i ln(i)

31 posted on 03/14/2015 8:48:29 AM PDT by mikrofon (Imagine if there was no more Pi...)
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