<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 8:47 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote" style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> <span style="font-size:14pt">>…but I did learn something new. This formula (1+9^-4^6*7)^3^2^85 is interesting for 2 reasons, the first is it uses every integer from 1 to 9, the second reason is that it works out to be 2.718281828459..., if you say that's Euler's constant then you be </span><i style="font-size:14pt">almost</i><span style="font-size:14pt"> correct but not quite, the formula is not exact, it's only a good approximation of e. How good an approximation? Pretty good, it only starts to go bad afer 18 trillion trillion digits!   John K Clark</span></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote" style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>That is indeed cool but I have trouble finding how it is good to 18 trillion digits</i></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">It's good for 18 trillion TRILLION digits, only after that does it deviate from e.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgBGibfLD-U" target="_blank">Incredible Formula - Numberphile</a> </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Stay Healthy. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br>
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