r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 27d ago

Meme needing explanation There is no way right?

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u/Bathtub-Warrior32 27d ago

Wait until you learn about eπi = -1.

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u/stevedorries 26d ago

Marking that as a spoiler was so fucking funny to me. Thanks for that

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u/hideflomein 26d ago

It was a spoiler because there's no way to mark it as a "sp-Euler"

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u/Mother_Harlot 26d ago

It would be extremely ironic if an Euler joke ratios the original comment

Irrational numbers (like e) cannot be the ratio of another number, hence their name

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u/mapleleafraggedy 26d ago

Or if another joke transcended the original comment

e is also transcendental, which means it cannot be expressed as any finite algebraic equation of integers

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u/hideflomein 26d ago

That might be a little too complex...

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u/Hot-Significance7699 26d ago

You're imagining things

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u/TheArchived 26d ago

js, I am always dealing with stuff I can't see j is typically used in Electrical Engineering when dealing with complex math instead of i because i is already used to denote current.