Re: Help with confirmation on a small bit of assembly?

[Raymond Wiker <raw@RawMBP.local>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> writes:

> Alex Freed wrote:
>> "Don Bruder" <dakidd@sonic.net> wrote in message
>> news:45bd5fd9$0$69026$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net...
>>
>>>> Yes it does. Take "i" and square it. You'll get a negative -1 by
>>>> definition.
>>>
>>>OK, wise-guy, any *REAL* number...
>> Did you ever ask yourself why the numbers in many programming
>> languages
>> are devided into INTEGER and REAL?
>> *REAL* as opposed to IMAGINARY.
>> So again by definition "i" can not be represented by real numbers.
>>
>>>Eh... I don't  think that holds, seeing as they are, by definition, an
>>>infinite distance apart... Rather difficult for two points an infinite
>>>distance apart to be/occupy the same point, wouldn't you agree?
>> I would agree if I didn't take a course in the theory of functions of
>> complex variables. Imaginary numbers are hard to imagine.
>> Pun intended.
>
> I've always considered the most beautiful math equation to be:
>
>    e^(2*i*pi) = -1
>
> One could teach an entire course in complex analysis from that
> equation!

	Not *completely* sure, but I think that's wrong... AFAIR, it
should be e^(pi*i) = -1...