From ...
Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!uio.no!news-feed.ifi.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: LISP - 2 exponent 0 = 1
Date: 17 Sep 2002 14:16:32 +0000
Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway
Lines: 14
Message-ID: <3241260992972414@naggum.no>
References: <am64ua$j6h$1@usenet.otenet.gr> <kw8z21ausy.fsf@merced.netfonds.no> <am6tll$9n1$1@usenet.otenet.gr> <kwlm60amti.fsf@merced.netfonds.no> <ey3fzw8x22s.fsf@cley.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1032272193 10658 129.240.64.16 (17 Sep 2002 14:16:33 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no
NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Sep 2002 14:16:33 GMT
Mail-Copies-To: never
User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2
Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:41066

* Tim Bradshaw
| Who cares about reals?  What we want is an explanation in terms of counting
| oranges (or apples will do, bananas if pushed) of why $e^{i\pi} = -1$.  We
| demand complex fruit[1]!

  Various forms of consumer fruits are now marketed as "seedless".  This is,
  of course, misleading.  They really have imaginary seed.  If you rotate a
  seedless fruit 90°, you get a fruitless seed.  This can provide hours of fun.

-- 
Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway

Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder.
Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.