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6 Responses to “Verizon bill math equation”

1. AA says:

   18 March 2009 at 18:42

   wrong, you can clearly read e^(1*Pi)

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2. marcellinosantoso says:

   23 April 2009 at 07:31

   I stand corrected, sir

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3. Greg says:

   20 October 2009 at 23:37

   It is debatable if it is a 1. not only would there be no point in writing a 1 in front of pi it is simply bad form. It is more than likely an integer larger than one. most likely 2.

   Also, the series is geometric and converges at a sum of 2.

   The exact value of the cheque is 0.002 + e^2pi + 2

   The rounded value is 537.50

   regards,
   Greg
   University of Ottawa | Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science

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4. Marcel says:

   20 October 2009 at 23:51

   Thanks for the comment Greg.

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5. madmaxx says:

   27 January 2010 at 16:44

   Randall Munroe is the maker of xkcd, he got a master in physics and would never write a 1 in front of a variable.

   Second, the series converges to 1. Thats because it is from n=1 to infinity, not from n=0. So its 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8.. instead of 1+1/2+1/4

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6. Kash says:

   2 February 2010 at 04:07

   Actually guys, it is i, as in square root of negative one, the 0.0002 is rounded off to zero due to 2 decimal point limit when talking about cents and dollars, e^i*pi equals -1 and the sum, with it being 1 divided by a number going up to infinity, equals 1. So the check has a whopping total value of $0.

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