>in the name of “simplification” and/or “performance,” it deprives us of the correct answer to the problem, Is not a universally useful way to think. For many,

>in the name of “simplification” and/or “performance,” it deprives us of the correct answer to the problem, Is not a universally useful way to think. For many, many problems computers can not give you the right solution and thus the most relevant question is what is a good (tradeoff between fast, accurate, small, implementable, etc.) approximation. In fact Euler's Identity is very hard to get out of a computer. Just telling it what 'pi' is, is not trivial in the slightest. Certainly 'pi' isn't a floating point number and if you import the mathematics library of your favorite language the thing called 'pi' is just a slightly more sophisticated version of 22/7.