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Rob Funk ([personal profile] rfunk) wrote2006-11-03 09:03 am

[identity profile] the-shampoo.livejournal.com 2006-11-03 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Um.....huh?

[identity profile] rfunk.livejournal.com 2006-11-03 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
It's Euler's Identity, and it came up a lot in my electrical engineering classes. EEs deal with imaginary numbers a lot, and this scene plays out all the time. I think everybody who understands the pieces has a similar reaction when first seeing them put together like that.

(Also note the popup - e to the power of something times x gives an oscillating wave, which is also kind of freaky.)

Of course, this sort of math (and much worse) also relates to the fact that I found computer classes much easier than EE classes, and moved toward the computer stuff.

Correction

[identity profile] rfunk.livejournal.com 2006-11-03 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"(Also note the popup - e to the power of something times x gives an oscillating wave, which is also kind of freaky.)"

Er, is that something is imaginary, I mean.

A winged horse, for example.

[identity profile] duriyah.livejournal.com 2006-11-03 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
It's my dad and me!

Ah, good times.