Newsgroups: sci.math,sci.answers,news.answers Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!paperboy.osf.org!bone.think.com!blanket.mitre.org!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!spool.mu.edu!torn!watserv3.uwaterloo.ca!undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca!neumann.uwaterloo.ca!alopez-o From: alopez-o@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Alex Lopez-Ortiz) Subject: sci.math FAQ: Special Numbers and Functions Summary: Part 11 of many, New version, Originator: alopez-o@neumann.uwaterloo.ca Message-ID: Sender: news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (news spool owner) Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 17:14:34 GMT Expires: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 09:55:55 GMT Reply-To: alopez-o@neumann.uwaterloo.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: neumann.uwaterloo.ca Organization: University of Waterloo Followup-To: sci.math Lines: 31 Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu sci.math:124727 sci.answers:3467 news.answers:57981 Archive-Name: sci-math-faq/specialnumbers/contents Last-modified: December 8, 1994 Version: 6.2 SPECIAL NUMBERS AND FUNCTIONS _________________________________________________________________ * How to compute digits of pi ? * Indiana bill sets the value of pi to 3 * Euler's formula: e^(i pi) = -1 * What is 0^0 * Why is 0.9999... = 1 ? * Name for f(x)^f(x) = x _________________________________________________________________ alopez-o@barrow.uwaterloo.ca