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Well there it is!!! I'm thinking of a loop counter not sqrt(-1). Silly
me. I guess that's what I get for being out of mathematics for so long.
Thanks,
Brian
Niall Litchfield wrote:
>
> i is the square root of minus -1. Not as in
>
> for i in 1.... loop.
>
> So this one formula relates natural logarithms, to pi to imaginary numbers
> to unity and zero. Its kind of nice that it has a neat trigonometric
> explanation as well.
>
> cheers
>
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> "Brian Peasland" <oracle_dba_at_remove_spam.peasland.com> wrote in message
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> >
> > > In your spare time try this:
> > >
> > > e raised to the power (pi * i)) + 1
> >
> > Maybe I'm not doing it right, but isn't this an ever increasing number
> > as i increases? I must be missing the point.....
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Brian
> >
> >
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