Re: Calculating e

To: CALC-TI@LISTS.PPP.TI.COM
Subject: Re: Calculating e
From: Rene Kragh Pedersen <u971168@DAIMI.AAU.DK>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 08:34:04 +0100
Organization: DAIMI - Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
References: <CALC-TI%1998030302022039@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM>
Reply-To: u971168@DAIMI.AAU.DK

Ray Kremer wrote:
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> For crying out loud, e is an irrational number.  The best you'll ever get
> is a close approximation, since no calculator, computer or otherwise will
> carry out to an enormous number of decimal places.  The calculators come
> with e to about 10 decimal places predefined, writing programs to get more
> is educational, but not all that useful.

P1: Writing the aforementioned program is educational.
P2: Writing the aforementioned program is not useful.
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C1: The education achieved through the program mentioned is not useful.

Well, nonetheless, someone must have decided that it IS useful, namelty
the ones that decide what you have to learn in school.

Think it over...

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          Rene Kragh Pedersen
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Apparently my clothes are defective.
 - Dilbert.

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Re: Calculating e

From: Ray Kremer <rkremer@BRADLEY.EDU>