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Re:The exponential function is a miracle by throwaway2048 on Friday September 13, 2019 @06:48AM (#20960895)
its a joke about how Euler's identity isn't normally simplified and written as:

     E^(iπ) = -1
because people wanna be "cute" about it containing 0 and 1, so why not a bunch of other arbitrary numbers too?
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Re:The exponential function is a miracle by lonelappde on Friday September 13, 2019 @07:13PM (#20967633)
Setting an expression equal to 0 is quite standard form.
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