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From: kers@otter.hple.hp.com (Christopher Dollin)
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: Re: Formulae
Message-ID: <2730002@otter.hple.hp.com>
Date: 24 Mar 88 08:32:04 GMT
References: <172@wjh12.harvard.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
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How about

    8 * sqrt(-1) = infinity

(looks better if the "* sqrt(-1)" is written with root signs and juxtaposition,
and only works when you replace "infinity" with the usual symbol (not aleph!)).

Because a multiplication by i is a rotation through pi/2 radians, don't you
know (said in a Peter Wimsey voice) ........................................

Regards,
Kers                                    | "Why Lisp if you can talk Poperly?"