One thing I've never understood is why people write it that way round, I always think of it as: e^(i*pi) = -1 I don't understand why people switch it around a

One thing I've never understood is why people write it that way round, I always think of it as: e^(i*pi) = -1 I don't understand why people switch it around all the time, I don't think it loses any elegance going that way round, I also feel it loses clarity being shuffled around because it's just one more (admittedly tiny) operation you need to do to see why it happens.