> The "has nothing to do with exponentiating e" I would strongly disagree with. That was a bad way of phrasing it. I should have said something more along the

> The "has nothing to do with exponentiating e" I would strongly disagree with. That was a bad way of phrasing it. I should have said something more along the lines of "... has nothing to do with multiplying e by itself iπ times. Multiplying something by itself n times is actually a special case of the more general concept of finding a function that is its own derivative."