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Monday September 25, 2006

02:07 PM

[ #31120 ]

What does Google's reaction to exp(pi i) tell you about the people who work there?

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Googlex people (Score:1)

by ferreira (5993)

That they were not sleeping in the classes of complex math?
Not quite good enough (Score:1)

by Tony Finch (6392)

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: (Score:1)
  
  by pjm (639)
  
  Eh? Works perfectly for me (as does, say, exp((pi/4)*i).
  - Re: (Score:1)
    
    by Tony Finch (6392)
    
    Hmm, you are right, and I have forgotten how radians work. How sad.
Bot war (Score:1)

by tsee (4409)

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) (Score:1)

by n1vux (1492)

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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