[Rhodes22-list] Don't Piss Off Engineers

[Ronald Lipton]

Ask this guy:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Gp0HyxQv97Q
If you have 20 minutes.  It's a pretty scary comment on math
numeracy.

Ron
On Feb 12, 2007, at 1:36 AM, Slim wrote:

> So how much is that in 2009 dollars?
> Slim
>
> On 2/11/07 10:20 PM, "Ronald Lipton" <rlipton at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> Very cute:
>>
>> e^(ipi) = -1
>> The infinite sum is = 1
>> so the check is for 0.2 cents.
>>
>> Ron
>> On Feb 11, 2007, at 9:51 PM, Brad Haslett wrote:
>>
>>> I asked Fan to figure out how much the check was for but she
>>> couldn't/wouldn't solve it, you figure it out.  Brad
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