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- From: edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar)
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- Subject: Re: What's going on here ???
- Date: 11 Sep 1992 08:35:40 -0400
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- Euler's function
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- 2 3 4
- > f(x) = 0! - x 1! + x 2! - x 3! + x 4! - ...
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- of course diverges. But in some sense (which I would like to
- understand better) the "best" value for it is the one you found,
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- f(x) = - exp(1/x) * Ei(1/x) * (1/x)
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