LOLOLOLOLOLOL
I showed this to my Dad just now. Dad is a chemist. I asked him what that math equation means. His best guess is that the man who wrote the check owed about .01 cents. Or something every small in that area.
He is very smart. It is .002
What the math equation means:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_identity
for the first part.
Second part is the summation notation. What it means is the sum of 1/x from x = 2 to infinity. This is equal to 1.
lim 1/2x x-> inf = 1/2+1/4+1/8+1/16 = 1
So the check is for 2 cents (-1) (+1). :)
The “e raised to the power pi i” is another way of saying ‘negative one’. The summation adds up to 1. The two cancel each other out and the amount of the check is therefore two tenths of a cent.