The other day Nat suggested that it would be funny to make a t-shirt with the slogan “e^2pi*i is the loneliest number” and when I figured out what he meant, a few minutes ago (the answer is “1”) it occurred to me that, while it might be funny to have a shirt with an alternate expression of “one” on it as the loneliest number, aren’t there other, lonelier numbers? I mean, could e^pi*i be lonelier? That’s got one less pi*i, and it’s negative. Or maybe i is really the loneliest number. It’s imaginary, you know. That’s gotta be pretty lonely.
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