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

and I guess I should have notated e^^(pi*i) as either

e^(pi*i) or e**(pi*i) - isn't plain text a pain sometimes.

e raised to the power of the product of pi and the square root of minus 1, minus 1 equals zero.

:(

Goodnight.

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"Niall Litchfield" <niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com> wrote in message
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> 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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> "Brian Peasland" <oracle_dba_at_remove_spam.peasland.com> wrote in message

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> > > In your spare time try this:

> > >

> > > e raised to the power (pi * i)) + 1

> >

> > Maybe I'm not doing it right, but isn't this an ever increasing number

> > as i increases? I must be missing the point.....

> >

> > Cheers,

> > Brian

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