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- From: hiraga@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Yuzuru Hiraga)
- Subject: Re: need proof: (1 + 1/n)^n ==> e
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.010543.11995@Csli.Stanford.EDU>
- Organization: Stanford University CSLI
- References: <1glr2qINN2vg@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1glt0lINNquc@news.aero.org>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 01:05:43 GMT
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- In article <1glt0lINNquc@news.aero.org> doner@Aero.org (John Doner) writes:
- >In article <1glr2qINN2vg@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, fau@po.CWRU.Edu (Francis A. Uy) writes:
- >|>
- >|> I can't believe I forgot the proof of this one.
- >|> Subject line says it all.
- >
- >First tell us what you want to use for a definition of e.
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- Hmmm.....
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- Given e = (1 + 1/n)^n, prove that (e^x)' = e^x;
- which boils down to lim(h->0) (e^h - 1)/h = 1.
-
- -Yuzuru Hiraga
-