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A joke in approximating numbers raised to irrational powers

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109 points nomemory | 1 comments | 18 Nov 24 16:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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sevensor ◴[19 Nov 24 18:13 UTC] No.42186490[source]▶

    sin x = x
Half the problems in EE become trivial once you learn this. Sometimes the universe does a bad job of complying with the approximation though.
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1. setopt ◴[19 Nov 24 20:35 UTC] No.42187823[source]▶
Since e^(2πi) = 1, we can also conclude that e^(2πifx) = 1^(fx). This makes Complex Fourier Transforms quite trivial.