Re: Guideline to save 0 or NULL to a NUMBER column (miles off topic)

Niall Litchfield wrote:

> "Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_exxesolutions.com> wrote in message
> news:3EEF6382.9314C55B_at_exxesolutions.com...
> > In your spare time try this:
> >
> > e raised to the power (pi * i)) + 1
>
> I was fortunate enough to have a maths teacher, Q if anyone from Worthing VI
> Form College is on this group, who claimed and gave reasons for
>
> e^^i*pi+1=0
>
> being the most elegant equation that there is, linking as it does probably
> the 5 most important numbers that exist.
>
> Of course his proofs that read at a critical point
>
> "Clearly" or "by inspection" or "consider" irritated me somewhat then and
> annoy the hell out of me now.
>
> Anyway a marvellous teacher and man.
>
> --
> Niall Litchfield
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I am impressed. What is truly fascinating is that if you take out the +1 ... you have definition of -1 from nothing but irrational numbers.

And that is why I do Oracle and not physics.

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