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0 pointsmadaxe_again11y ago0 comments

So, I asked it:

What's e^i(pi)+1?

The response was... a little out. I'm impressed it had a crack at least.

"It's 2.69740975483297316969108251300445672427640640289560... + 2.64355906408145617888606598966971861665798063847235.."

Edit:

Heh, asked it the square root of i, and the answer made me chuckle:

The square root of you is (-1)^(1/4).

I don't know why I'm expecting a bot to know complex plane mathematics and euler's identity.

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ColinWright11y ago· 2 in thread

Its response to your first question is in fact exactly right, because you didn't ask what you thought you asked. Your brackets are in the wrong place. You asked:

    e^i(pi)+1

which is:

    (pi * (e^i) ) + 1

which is:

    2.69740975.. + 2.64355906... i

So it was right.

And sqrt(i) is sqrt(sqrt(-1)) which is (-1)^(1/4), so again, it was right (excepting that it put "you" instead of "i")

So it did better than you think.

madaxe_againOP11y ago

D'oh, you're quite right. In that case, top marks!

EugeneOZ11y ago

> excepting that it put "you" instead of "i"

just one drop of the sense of humor maybe :)

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