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So, I asked it:

What's e^i(pi)+1?

The response was... a little out. I'm impressed it had a crack at least.

"It's 2.69740975483297316969108251300445672427640640289560... + 2.64355906408145617888606598966971861665798063847235.."

Edit:

Heh, asked it the square root of i, and the answer made me chuckle:

The square root of you is (-1)^(1/4).

I don't know why I'm expecting a bot to know complex plane mathematics and euler's identity.



Its response to your first question is in fact exactly right, because you didn't ask what you thought you asked. Your brackets are in the wrong place. You asked:

    e^i(pi)+1
which is:

    (pi * (e^i) ) + 1
which is:

    2.69740975.. + 2.64355906... i
So it was right.

And sqrt(i) is sqrt(sqrt(-1)) which is (-1)^(1/4), so again, it was right (excepting that it put "you" instead of "i")

So it did better than you think.


D'oh, you're quite right. In that case, top marks!


> excepting that it put "you" instead of "i"

just one drop of the sense of humor maybe :)




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