Timeline for Approximating $e$ with 2s and 3s
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| Mar 3, 2011 at 18:31 | history | edited | S. Carnahan♦ | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Mar 3, 2011 at 12:52 | comment | added | Kevin O'Bryant | Not problematic, but if we're counting operations, we should count those, too. | |
| Mar 2, 2011 at 18:05 | comment | added | S. Carnahan♦ | Yes. If we didn't have a rapidly converging series for $e$, it would be quite hopeless to find the $10^{1000000}$th term. I'm not sure why it is problematic that we need the value of $e$. | |
| Mar 2, 2011 at 17:49 | comment | added | Kevin O'Bryant | But you still need to know the value of $e$ in some form, either as a limit or as a continued fraction or...somehow. | |
| Mar 2, 2011 at 17:43 | history | answered | S. Carnahan♦ | CC BY-SA 2.5 |