From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Feb 17 12:16:04 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:16:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JQpvg-0007iV-13 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:16:04 -0800 Received: from sparkle.rodents.montreal.qc.ca ([216.46.5.7] ident=9S2j9k7F8RSWCWF5kmtpvmePDJugpCwyIcXAnZeVLRv) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JQpvT-0007hz-3i for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:16:03 -0800 Received: (from mouse@localhost) by Sparkle.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA22475; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:15:39 -0500 (EST) From: der Mouse Message-Id: <200802172015.PAA22475@Sparkle.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Erik-Conspiracy: There is no Conspiracy - and if there were I wouldn't be part of it anyway. X-Message-Flag: Microsoft: the company who gave us the botnet zombies. Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:12:00 -0500 (EST) To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Nth roots of unity In-Reply-To: References: X-Spam-Score: 0.1 X-Spam-Score-Int: 1 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 355 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners > In mathematical terminology, there is a phrase "root of unity." My > ability to explain it sucks, so I'm going to copy the definition from > the controversial Wikipedia, and hope not to be shot down: Wikipedia is pretty good for things that are factual, for which there is one clearly right answer. This is an example. The definition you quote is right, and I say that as someone with a BSc in mathematics, who knows enough complex analysis to have written out the definition cold. /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B