Subject: Re: LISP - 2 exponent 0 = 1 From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 17 Sep 2002 14:16:32 +0000 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3241260992972414@naggum.no> * Tim Bradshaw | Who cares about reals? What we want is an explanation in terms of counting | oranges (or apples will do, bananas if pushed) of why $e^{i\pi} = -1$. We | demand complex fruit[1]! Various forms of consumer fruits are now marketed as "seedless". This is, of course, misleading. They really have imaginary seed. If you rotate a seedless fruit 90°, you get a fruitless seed. This can provide hours of fun. -- Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.