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Title: The Number "e"
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Author: Unknown

Release Date: June 20, 2008 [EBook #63]

Language: English

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The Number "e"

Below is the value of 'e' to about 100,000 places, computed on the NCSA
Cray Y-MP using the Brent multiple precision routines (published as
Algorithm 524 in the March 1978 issue of Transactions on Mathematical
Software). The method used was to compute first the alternating series
for 1/e, then to invert this result. The time to compute 1/e was
about 594 seconds, and the time to invert was about 97 seconds. No
special optimization was attempted on the code, other than the
default vectorization that the cft77 compiler attempts to do.

2.718281828459045235360287471352662497
7572470936999595749669676277240766303535
4759457138217852516642742746639193200305
9921817413596629043572900334295260595630
7381323286279434907632338298807531952510
1901157383418793070215408914993488416750
9244761460668082264800168477411853742345
4424371075390777449920695517027618386062
6133138458300075204493382656029760673711
3200709328709127443747047230696977209310
1416928368190255151086574637721112523897
8442505695369677078544996996794686445490
5987931636889230098793127736178215424999
2295763514822082698951936680331825288693
9849646510582093923982948879332036250944
3117301238197068416140397019837679320683
2823764648042953118023287825098194558153
0175671736133206981125099618188159304169
0351598888519345807273866738589422879228
4998920868058257492796104841984443634632
4496848756023362482704197862320900216099
0235304369941849146314093431738143640546
2531520961836908887070167683964243781405
9271456354906130310720851038375051011574
7704171898610687396965521267154688957035
0354021234078498193343210681701210056278
8023519303322474501585390473041995777709
3503660416997329725088687696640355570716
2268447162560798826517871341951246652010
3059212366771943252786753985589448969709
6409754591856956380236370162112047742722
8364896134225164450781824423529486363721
4174023889344124