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selimthegrim
2 days ago
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A cute proof that makes e natural
I was once a contractor for TI (and we wrote the same subroutines for Casio) so I can actually answer this. See my story here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6017670
selimthegrim
2 days ago
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And of course by Muphry's law I managed to confuse real and principal roots in that answer. -1 is not the principal cube root of -1.
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