On 2012-04-27, David Wilson <davidwwilson@comcast.net> wrote:
Yes, and then there was
pi^4 + pi^5 = e^6
which was found by me, however, I found it long ago in an email signature on a USENET group.
I was impressed, and later mentioned it to Eric Weisstein, and it ended up in MathWorld (Almost Integer) crediting me.
From there it went to Wikipedia (Mathematical Coincidence).
Does it have a prior history in the literature?
My entry on the number has a footnote giving this page: http://zhurnaly.com/cgi-bin/wiki/CoincidentalTaxonomy which (after the article but before the comment section) says "TopicScience - Datetag20011019", suggesting a date of Oct 19, 2001. -- Robert Munafo -- mrob.com Follow me at: gplus.to/mrob - fb.com/mrob27 - twitter.com/mrob_27 - mrob27.wordpress.com - youtube.com/user/mrob143 - rilybot.blogspot.com