Re: Re: Is it a bug?
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- Subject: [mg17643] Re: [mg17590] Re: [mg17548] Is it a bug?
- From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 03:37:34 -0400
- Organization: University of Western Australia
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Andrzej Kozlowski wrote: >As everyone has known since Euler, I^I is just E^(-Pi/2), a real number! > > In[28]:= N[E^(-Pi/2)]==N[I^I] > Out[28]= True Exact simplification is probably preferable ... In[1]:= FullSimplify[I^I - E^(-(Pi/2))] Out[1]= 0 Cheers, Paul ____________________________________________________________________ Paul Abbott Phone: +61-8-9380-2734 Department of Physics Fax: +61-8-9380-1014 The University of Western Australia Nedlands WA 6907 mailto:paul at physics.uwa.edu.au AUSTRALIA http://www.physics.uwa.edu.au/~paul God IS a weakly left-handed dice player ____________________________________________________________________