About
The Author
Charles Guan is a 18 19 20 year old student at the Massachvsetts Bay Colony Institvte of the Technologickal Arts. He has been tinkering with computers, electronics and mechanical devices since late 2000, and is fond of writing reflexively in third-person. He has primarily built robots for combat due to the influence of the show BattleBots, which was aired on Comedy Central from 2000 to 2002. Building combat robots has trained him in practical mechanical engineering, which he hopes will act as a starting point in pursuing a career in robotics and engineering building lots of cool stuff. He reads Wikipedia way too much, requires a constant supply of Mountain Dew Jolt, and consumes Taco Bell products voraciously.
Charles started www.etotheipiplusone.net in January of 2006 after realizing that Geocities free hosting did not actually qualify as having a real website. He first started the site solely as a team page for his competition robots, but began using it to document other events and projects, which necessitated the site’s redesign to become more general in nature.
The Site
www.etotheipiplusone.net is a reference to the famous mathematical phenomenon that is Euler’s Identity. It is a concise equation with a surprisingly intricate background, and has implications in many fields of mathematics. There is not much mathematics involved in the use of the name as a website besides its novelty and perhaps obscurity.
The site runs using the Wordpress publishing platform, which was chosen because of its ease of use and maintenance coupled with powerful features and extensibility. Not that the site needs all of Wordpress’s horsepower – since it is not out to win any awards, but merely to function as a dumping ground for Charles’ antics.
A browser other than Internet Explorer is severely recommended due to nonstandard parsing of markup languages in IE that causes the site to display errors. 1280 or above resolution is also recommended.
Life
Places to find Charles!
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MIT (duh)