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Re: Guideline to save 0 or NULL to a NUMBER column

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 21:50:44 +0100
Message-ID: <3eef7ed4$0$10631$cc9e4d1f@news.dial.pipex.com>


i is the square root of minus -1. Not as in

for i in 1.... loop.

So this one formula relates natural logarithms, to pi to imaginary numbers to unity and zero. Its kind of nice that it has a neat trigonometric explanation as well.

cheers

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> > In your spare time try this:
> >
> > e raised to the power (pi * i)) + 1
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> Maybe I'm not doing it right, but isn't this an ever increasing number
> as i increases? I must be missing the point.....
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> Cheers,
> Brian
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