chasereed

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   by chasereed 8y ago

   I agree, but as a gay ex-Mormon, I have seen that educating people about the (mostly) biological origin of homosexuality is the most effective way to break through people’s dogmatic shields and make them start empathizing with gay people.
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   by chasereed 8y ago

   This really just boils down to: Counting is an intuitive thing for us and it's useful to mathematically define it.
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   by chasereed 8y ago

   The proof of the formula is beautiful. It's common to defined the complex exponential as the extension of the Taylor expansion of exp(x) to the complex plane. Thus, exp(iy) = 1 + iy + (iy)^2/2! + ... Now just group the even