Patched :-)
say (e**(i*pi)+1).round(10⁻¹²)
On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 4:28 PM Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just for giggles, say e**(i*pi) + 1 prints 0+1.2246467991473532e-16i
> which isn't exactly right, but close enough for government work.
> (You could call it really right, the error is imaginary. :-)* )
>
>
> On 9/12/18, Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Built-in constants:
> > pi, tau, e, i
> >
> > perl6 -e 'say pi ~ " " ~ tau ~ " " ~ e ~ " " ~ i';
> >
> > 3.141592653589793 6.283185307179586 2.718281828459045 0+1i
> > (tau is 2pi, useful if you want to calculate the circumference of your
> > tuits.
> > Pi and tau can also be accessed as the Unicode characters.
> >
> > User-defined
> > constant answer = 42;
> >
> > Scope is lexical:
> > constant where = "outer";
> > say where; {
> > constant where = "inner";
> > say where;
> > }
> > say where;
> >
>
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Fernando Santagata
