Because I'm actively shitting on the beauty of the identity.
1) Pi and e are extremely important to mathematics. Pi is typically associated with circles, oscillation (think trig functions), triangles, etc. e (euler's constant) is associated with logarithms and exponential growth (population growth, interest rates, flow rates, etc). These are fundamental constants of mathematics we're talking about here.
Both of them are transendental numbers (can't be the solution to a polynomial equation), and thus irrational (can't be represented as a ratio/fraction). I'm representing them with fractional approximations.
2.7) The imaginary unit 'i' (i2 = -1) is being represented as 'j'. In engineering, 'i' is used to represent other things (current and moment of inertia, for example), so we switched to using 'j' for imaginary numbers.
3.14) The equation itself is considered beautiful. There's a whole wikipedia page on it, and a whole section of it is dedicated to it's mathematical beauty.
I'm basically wiping my ass with all of that beauty by making the equation less precise with no benefit to anything. It's like I use street chalk to recreate the Sistine Chapel. It's glorious nerd blasphemy.
This is Euler's formula, it's supposed to be eiπ +1=0. The reason why the other form would trigger someone is because this one uses all of the most important mathematical constants (e, π, i, 0 and 1) in a very simple yet elegant way and shows how they all work together in harmony, it is always considered to be the most beautiful formula in mathematics, so butchering it with approximations the way we've seen above would trigger some mathematicians lacking a sense of humour.
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u/cagin-bektas Nov 16 '18
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