calculating e Part II
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calculating e Part II
Thankyou to all who responded --- by your responses I see that I didn't
present my question very well. I wanted to know why the calculator
displays a number _greater_ than the approximation of e (e displayed to 9
decimals) when A is 10x10^13. When the seed for the program is 9 instead
of 10, the values displayed are also above a close approximation of e but
vary greater than the calculations using a seed of 10 . What is happening
to create this unexpectted display? I am using a TI-83. Run the program
to see what I mean.
10 stor A
Lbl 1
(1+1/A)^A sto B
DISP B
DISP A
A*10 sto A
PAUSE
GOTO 1
Lisa Ledwith
Germantown Academy
Fort Washington, PA
Mathematics Teacher
lledw@ga.k12.pa.us
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