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- From: jcbhrb@nic.cerf.net (Jacob Hirbawi)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
- Subject: Re: New class of functions found, impact of CAS on math
- Message-ID: <2350@nic.cerf.net>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 22:53:34 GMT
- Organization: CERFnet
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- In his post to sci.math.symbolic <1992Jul21.204630.2957@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
- Nasser Abbasi <abbasi@star.enet.dec.com> writes:
-
- > there is an interesting article about how using computer algebra
- > systems (MAPLE), it helped in finding a new class of function, called
- > terminal summations.
- > look it up, it is on page 35 of July 20,1992 Electronics Engineering
- > Times magazine.
- > it is too long to type, so here are some psudo-random quotes from the
- > article :(printed with no permission)
-
- [ several extracts from the article deleted ]
-
- Very interesting article! I'm not sure I beleive his claim: "I've shown that
- problems of divergence can be banished from math applications"; but the
- example about the "companion" function to exp(x) is worth a closer look.
- You have to admit that you don't expect this function to converge quickly
- (if at all):
-
- B(x) = 1 + x + 2!x^2 + 3!x^3 + 4!x^4 + ... + n!x^n + ...
-
- So does anyone know more about this "Terminal Summations" stuff ?
-
- Jacob Hirbawi
- JcbHrb@CERF.net
-