Simon, I'm glad you've weighed in on this issue. I've felt bad for disrespecting your Inverter just because it doesn't meet my simple and shallow needs. I'm not qualified to appreciate its benefits or even to understand most of the functions (I've tried learning many of them but my eyes glaze over). I wonder if you get as much mail from the dedicated, but somewhat fanatical and misguided, members of the "Cult of 137". I refer to those people, including none less than Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington [1], who were/are convinced that there is profound truth about the Universe hidden in the simplest of formulas involving elementary functions. It would be all right, if they didn't keep nagging me to put their findings on my website. Constants are actually pretty easy to add to ries and it's in my plans for the near future. The symbol and rule tables were designed with the idea in mind from the start. - Robert On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 09:42, Simon Plouffe <simon.plouffe@gmail.com> wrote:
[...] we are dealing here with non-linear expressions even if we take the log, unless you are mr Gosper itself, but mr Gosper is not a method it is a human being.!, ...
Sounds like "The Prisoner"... I am not a number! I am a free man! (see [2]) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddington_number [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 09:42, Simon Plouffe <simon.plouffe@gmail.com>wrote:
Hello,
I agree with Robert Munafo, cracking real numbers is hard, as far as I know there are 4-5 ways to do that.
[...] 3) Use the RIES program, very fast yes, can find genuine approximations in a jiffy, better than any other methods but if we follow Steven Finch approach to the problem there are many improvements we could make by using named constants, there are hundreds of them like the Madelung constants, the Riemann zeros, the parking constant, the sofa constant, the Feigenbaum constants, etc.
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There is so far no global answer to this problem, the best is a mix of all this I presume ?
Best Regards to all, Simon Plouffe
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