LPow correction

Peter S. Shenkin peters at cubsvax.UUCP
Fri Jun 27 05:49:12 AEST 1986


In article <brl-smok.1611> rbj at icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) writes:
>My favorite one liner is `1 + +/ % ! i 12' (where `%' is DIVIDE (reciprocal)
>and `i' is IOTA). Twelve is a good approximation to infinity here. Anyway,
>you can see what happens when x is zero. All the other terms flake out
>except the first, which has to be one. Isn't this fun?

Whoops, don't you mean:
		1 + +/ (x ^ i12) % (! i12)
??  (Ya need x^n in the numerator of each term....  I'm using "^" for 
exponentiation.)

Peter S. Shenkin	 Columbia Univ. Biology Dept., NY, NY  10027
{philabs,rna}!cubsvax!peters		cubsvax!peters at columbia.ARPA



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