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its a joke about how Euler's identity isn't normally simplified and written as:

     E^(iπ) = -1 
because people wanna be "cute" about it containing 0 and 1, so why not a bunch of other arbitrary numbers too?


Setting an expression equal to 0 is quite standard form.




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