Thursday, April 03, 2008

Attention Business...

... don't tick off the scientists.

9 comments:

  1. Um ... yeah, I get $0.002 as well. What's up with that? Maybe that's actually what Verizon billed this guy -- literally, 1/5 of a cent.

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  2. Show offs ... think you're soooooo much mathier than everyone else. Well, I could shop all your asses into the ground.

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  3. Quiet yourself, heathen - worship my shopping prowess.

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  4. Anonymous1:43 PM

    I wonder what would happen if I wrote myself a check with a sideways 8 on it.

    Would banks teller's heads start popping all over Md?

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  5. Thank you for that link Lulu....

    :D

    I can't believe I missed that. Math is so overrated...

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  6. I get an answer of $1.002.

    The infinite series (i.e. last term) = 1/(1-1/2) = 2.

    I think that the middle term is equal to -1, but I'm admittedly not sure.

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  7. OK, now I'm sure:

    e ^ (ix) = cos(x) + i * sin(x)

    so if x = pi, then

    e ^ (i * pi) = cos(pi) + i * sin(pi)

    meanwhile cos(pi) = -1 and sin(pi) = 0, so

    e ^ (i * pi) = -1 + i * 0 = -1

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