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- From: bs@gauss.mitre.org (Robert D. Silverman)
- Subject: Re: need proof: (1 + 1/n)^n ==> e
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.012059.5690@linus.mitre.org>
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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 01:20:59 GMT
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- In article <1glr2qINN2vg@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> fau@po.CWRU.Edu (Francis A. Uy) writes:
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- :I can't believe I forgot the proof of this one.
- : Subject line says it all.
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- Expand (1+1/n)^n by the Binomial Theorem; let n --> infinity
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- or:
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- y = (1+1/n)^n
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- log y = n log(1+1/n) = log(1 + 1/n)/(1/n); use L'hospitals rule.
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