Re: Calculating e
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Re: Calculating e
At 12:59 AM 3/3/98 GMT, you wrote:
>I am surprised at the awnsers that this message has recieved. Justin Smith
>Had Obviously not ran the program or he would have known that there wasn't
>an overflow error and that his code would do the exact same thing, just a
>different way. Dan Cogswell said the you would have better luck writing
>this in C or BASIC. THIS IS FOR A CALCULATOR, NOT A COMPUTER!!!!! Sorry,
>had to get that out. This is a calculator discussion group. Now on to the
>question. I had the same problem on my calc and wasn't sure what caused it.
>Through experimetation I was able to find out that the value the calc uses
>for e is the exact same as the value you will get by substituting 10^12 for
Okay. If you want to calculate e exactly, here is how to do it:
e^x = (x^0/0!)+(x^1/1!)+(x^2/2!)+(x^3/3!)+(x^4/4!)+(x^5/5!)...
Maybe that wasn't what you were going after but it is how the calculator
should work e as (not using the (1+1/1000000000)^1000000000 method which
only comes close to e^1).
Thomas J. Hruska -- thruska@tir.com
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