Jim & others, In theory I'm collecting Murray Klamkin's work, and in practice I have about 500 pages worth of electrons. If you can find these references, even download them, I would be glad to learn whatever detail there is. Thanks in anticipation and best wishes. R. On Tue, 6 May 2008, James Propp wrote:

I seem to recall that Murray Klamkin once gave an example about how one can use integration by parts to get a better estimate of the integral of x^x from x=100 to x=101 than one would get by looking at the original integral. I may have the details wrong, though; can anyone recall how this goes?

(In fact, I think I even know where Klamkin published it: it was in "On the teaching of mathematics so as to be useful" or "On the ideal role of an industrial mathematician and its educational implications". But I can't locate a world-readable copy of either article.)

Thanks,

Jim Propp

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