Tim Newsham wrote:
Lets see a perl/python/... equivalent to this lisp exercise for
obtaining 'e':
[...]
Euler's number, 'e', is approximately 2.7182818284590452354, and this
is a highly-inefficient way to extract it, but
the function does tend toward 'e'.)
Jim
If you like this kind of stuff, you'd probably get a kick out of
Doug McIlroy's "The Music of Streams", available on his home page:
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/
Doug, of course, is a long-standing member of the Unix community.
(And thanks, I didn't know about "The Music of Streams".
Here is a large collection of programming "e-books".
http://www.programmingebooks.tk/
just in-case anyone is getting the itch.
