21 Apr
2010
21 Apr
'10
3:26 p.m.
On 4/21/10, Bill Gosper <billgosper@gmail.com> wrote:
While flagitating some kids with my usual sutra of always replacing Bernoulli numbers with Bernoulli polynomials in some new variable, ...
Don't people get locked up for that sort of thing these days? (Or is that only in Switzerland ...)
Putting y=0 and y=1 in the first one must be equal, giving the cot halfangle formula. --rwg
Maybe should have read "y=0 and y=pi" ? A university lecturer of yore, while teaching a course in complex analyis, was alleged to have become so tired of writing 1/(2 pi) in front of integrals, that he took to announcing at the start of the course that 2 pi = 1. Even more drastic than decreeing pi = 3, methinks ... WFL