Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!topaz!ll-xn!nike!lll-crg!seismo!cmcl2!rna!cubsvax!peters From: peters@cubsvax.UUCP (Peter S. Shenkin) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: LPow correction Message-ID: <494@cubsvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 26-Jun-86 15:49:12 EDT Article-I.D.: cubsvax.494 Posted: Thu Jun 26 15:49:12 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 28-Jun-86 09:16:02 EDT References: Reply-To: peters@cubsvax.UUCP (Peter S. Shenkin) Organization: Columbia Univ. Bio. CG Fac., NY Lines: 13 In article rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) writes: >My favorite one liner is `1 + +/ % ! i 12' (where `%' is DIVIDE (reciprocal) >and `i' is IOTA). Twelve is a good approximation to infinity here. Anyway, >you can see what happens when x is zero. All the other terms flake out >except the first, which has to be one. Isn't this fun? Whoops, don't you mean: 1 + +/ (x ^ i12) % (! i12) ?? (Ya need x^n in the numerator of each term.... I'm using "^" for exponentiation.) Peter S. Shenkin Columbia Univ. Biology Dept., NY, NY 10027 {philabs,rna}!cubsvax!peters cubsvax!peters@columbia.ARPA