21 Apr
2010
21 Apr
'10
4:37 p.m.
On Wednesday 21 April 2010 17:24:11 Fred lunnon wrote:
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.
I always thought that the "correct" representation of angles on a computer was as a fixed-point fraction with the binary point all the way to the left. So 2 pi would indeed be 1 (mod 1) = 0. --ms