Timeline for What's your favorite equation, formula, identity or inequality?
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| Aug 22, 2010 at 6:05 | comment | added | matthias beck | @ Robin: I'm not responsible for the title... :) But there is certainly a connection here. | |
| Aug 21, 2010 at 18:52 | comment | added | Andreas Blass | My favorite way to think of $I+{\frac{1}{2}}B-1$ is as the number of lattice points in the polygon, with the "reasonable" convention for points on the boundary: A point in the interior of an edge is half in the polygon, and a vertex with interior angle $\alpha$ is $\alpha/(2\pi)$ in the polygon. | |
| Aug 21, 2010 at 6:52 | comment | added | Robin Chapman | That reminds me, I remember seeing a book with title something like "Computing the continuous discretely". I can't remember the authors; do you know them by any chance? :-) | |
| Aug 21, 2010 at 6:43 | history | answered | matthias beck | CC BY-SA 2.5 |