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A New 'Identity'

February 28, 2019

A 'tired vs. wired' meme: Euler's identity is out; the near-integer e^(π√163) is in.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2019-02-28-a-new-identity/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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[TIRED] e^(π√−1) + 1 = 0

[WIRED] e^(π√163) − 262,537,412,640,768,744 ≈ 0

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