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by toth
518 days ago
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Charitably it was a joke, as was my quip about `e^(sqrt(67) pi)`. It is a funnier joke without a disclaimer at the end, but unlike GP I couldn't bring myself to leave one out and potentially mislead some people... What I meant was that I didn't know that `e^pi - pi` is another transcendental expression that is very close an integer. You might think this is just an uninteresting coincidence but there's some interesting mathematics around such "almost integers". Wikipedia has a quick overview [1]. I didn't realize it before, but they have GP's example and also the awesome `e + pi + e pi + e^pi + pi^e ~= 60`. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_integer |
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