$$e^i = (e^i)^{(2\pi/2\pi)} = (e^{2\pi i})^{1/2\pi} = 1^{1/2\pi} = 1.$$
I first saw this one many years ago, written on the wall of a bathroom stall in the Princeton University math department.
Timothy Chow
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