Credit goes to childeater for this one.
March 27, 2007 - Posted by Mike | Humor
e ^ i*pi = -1 http://members.shaw.ca/quadibloc/math/ide01.htm
if i remember correctly, the limit portion of the check will equate to +1 (can anyone confirm/refute this?).
So he’s basically written a check to Verizon for .0002 cents?
Comment by childeater | March 27, 2007
Bwuhahahaha!
I might just try that with the cable co.
Comment by UM | March 27, 2007
The limit portion is approaching infinity. With the denominator approaching a large number, the value becomes infinitesimally small, so you can call it 0.
If I’m reading that correctly, then he wrote a check for -0.998 essentially.
Comment by Mike | March 28, 2007
I think the limit approaches zero but it’s a sum of all the terms leading up to zero, which I believe equals 1, so the check is for 0.2 cents.
Comment by agalcid | March 28, 2007
Ah yes! The sum! Man, I haven’t done this kind of math in like 10 years.
It’d still be .002, though, right? Less than 1 cent?
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e ^ i*pi = -1
http://members.shaw.ca/quadibloc/math/ide01.htm
if i remember correctly, the limit portion of the check will equate to +1 (can anyone confirm/refute this?).
So he’s basically written a check to Verizon for .0002 cents?
Bwuhahahaha!
I might just try that with the cable co.
The limit portion is approaching infinity. With the denominator approaching a large number, the value becomes infinitesimally small, so you can call it 0.
If I’m reading that correctly, then he wrote a check for -0.998 essentially.
I think the limit approaches zero but it’s a sum of all the terms leading up to zero, which I believe equals 1, so the check is for 0.2 cents.
Ah yes! The sum! Man, I haven’t done this kind of math in like 10 years.
It’d still be .002, though, right? Less than 1 cent?