D&D math joek

Halivar said:
Is that Euler's? I took complex mathematics at 7 in the morning five years ago and I can't remember anymore.

e to the i PI take away one equals zero.

I can remember being told in a maths class that this equation is placed on the side of all space junk that nasa pumps out into the cosmos. Apparently the thinking behind it is that all advanced civilisations will eventually discover the five most important values in the universe: 1, 0, PI, e and of course i.

Who'd of thunk it?

Best Regards
Herremann the Wise

PS: Perhaps other advanced civilisations will laugh at our attempts though.
They will laugh that we had not discovered u, GONK, temma and $#%@ {some un-nameable and mystic symbol that solves all equations including Fermat's - and no they did not have to discover different branches of mathematics to prove it!}
 

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Gez said:
At least, that's what the Computer said. And the Computer cannot be wrong, since errors are a human thing. And the Computer is my friend, so it wouldn't lie to me.

Psst.

1782^12 --> even
1841^12 --> odd
therefore
1782^12+1841^12 --> odd

but
1922^12 --> even
 


ThoughtfulOwl said:
Close.

e to the i pi plus 1 equals zero. :p

plus.. minus... it must be within at least a standard deviation. ;)

heck i haven't done math since my freshman year of college... and that was a long, long, long time ago. :heh:
 

Mwhahahahaha! Mathematics

Halivar said:
Is that Euler's? I took complex mathematics at 7 in the morning five years ago and I can't remember anymore.

Yep, Euler's identity.

e ^ x * i = cos(x) + i*sin(x) for any real number x (you calculator should be in radians, not degrees). The cosine of pi (180 degrees) is -1, and the sine is 0.
 

RangerWickett said:
Okay, I so did not get those first two jokes. Anyone care to explain why I didn't? I mean, it won't make the jokes funny, but my curiosity will be sated.
Well, ignoring the long buildup, the punchline mocks the highly abstract mathematical and physical models which are used to solve real-world problems without sharing even an inkling of the real-world complexity. A "point-like dragon in a vaccum" isn't more realistic than a "point-like particle in a vaccum", both are sheer nonsense yet the latter is used extensively in physics. Ditto for a "spherical dragon", there are no real spheres obviously.
Of course, once you explain them they aren't funny :confused:
 

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