New closed-form approximations to the logarithmic constant \(e\)

DOI10.1007/BF03025225zbMath0956.11028MaRDI QIDQ1284613

Harlan J. Brothers, John A. Knox

Publication date: 26 April 1999

Published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

numerical approximationlogarithmic constant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Evaluation of number-theoretic constants (11Y60) Numerical approximation and computational geometry (primarily algorithms) (65D99)

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Uses Software

• Mathematica

Cites Work

• On the rapid computation of various polylogarithmic constants
• The Uniform Continuity of Continuous Functions on a Topological Space
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