Frustrated client finally pays
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Lol - I doubt the bank teller that took that check, or any bank teller has a high enough math degree to translate that 
That's probably what the bank teller, that took that check, asked too.
Papi Chulo said:
That's probably what the bank teller, that took that check, asked too.
$0.002Papi Chulo said:
The other terms cancel each other out (according to the posts on the net)
It wasn't a real cheque - it is Randall Munroe's response to George Vaccaro's problems with Verizon because they can't tell the difference between 0.002 dollars and 0.002 cents.
George Vaccaro's blog: http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/
There was YouTube link to his conversation with Verizon (might be taken down now).
Transcript - see his post on December 9th, 2006.
Randall Munroe does the funny and geeky webcomic xkcd http://xkcd.com/
'Tis true.
e^(i*pi)=-1
The sum approaches 1 as n approaches infinity so we have (-1) + 1 which of course is zero.
It would have been interesting if the cheque was made as 0.01 + xxxxx, then see if Verizon would cash it in for the penny.
Reference: http://www.math.utoronto.ca/mathnet/questionCorner/epii.html
e^(i*pi)=-1
The sum approaches 1 as n approaches infinity so we have (-1) + 1 which of course is zero.
It would have been interesting if the cheque was made as 0.01 + xxxxx, then see if Verizon would cash it in for the penny.
Reference: http://www.math.utoronto.ca/mathnet/questionCorner/epii.html
