[ExI] bernoulli numbers

[Tomasz Rola]

On Thu, 28 May 2009, spike wrote:

> The point of this story gets lost in the political trivia.  Never do they
> actually answer the important question, did this kid find the formula for
> generating Bernoulli numbers?  Any articles on the topic do not actually
> give the formula he discovered, so I have no way of verifying.  Oy vey.
>  
> http://www.thelocal.se/19710/20090528/
>  
> spike
> 

Without "a formula", this looks more like a PR stuff. I have found a lot 
of interesting things following the wikipedia page. 

http://cims.nyu.edu/~harvey/bernmm/
http://blog.wolfram.com/2008/04/29/today-we-broke-the-bernoulli-record-from-the-analytical-engine-to-mathematica/

They may not be as briliant as what the guy did, they may take five days 
to compute but at least they compute.

Regards
Tomasz Rola

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