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From: jfh@browngr.UUCP (John "Spike" Hughes)
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: Re: multiple-precision arithmetic
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Date: Mon, 10-Dec-84 10:05:57 EST
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Computing 'e', using finite precision: I had this as an assignment in
a programming course at Princeton in 1975 (although I never did do the
asst.) The idea (at least in part) was to use variable radix expansions,
i.e. to express a number not in 10th's, hundreth's, etc., but instead
as some number of 1/(2!)'s, some number of 1/(3!)'s, etc. In this
form, e = 1.1111111111111... etc. I can't remember what one did from there...