(16C) e to 400 decimal places

[Dieter]

(02-06-2015 02:12 AM)Rick314 Wrote:  See the attached scans of handwritten pages I wrote in 1982 to approximate e (2.71828...) to 400+ decimal places on an HP-16C.

Wow, what a coincidence: at the same time I wrote the same e program using the same method on my 41C. Or maybe... it's not quite that coincidental, because those were the days when things like these were done on programmable calculators. My math teacher had a similar program for his TI59 and 700 or 800 digits, while I could finally come up with more than 2200. ;-)

Dieter