Re: The next exercise

[Emanuel Berg]

tomas wrote:

>> Or you remember how e can be introduced: with
>> 
>>          /    1\ n              /    1\ n+1
>>   a_n := |1 + -|   and   b_n := |1 + -|  
>>          \    n/                \    n/  
>
> FWIW, I started with the binomial formula,
>
>   (1000 + 1)^1000 = 1000^1000 + (n-over-1) * 1000^999 + ...

Is this the new exercise, to estimate e?

What does it mean to introduce something? I'm not familiar
with :=, I guess that's introduction then.

But I've seen that somewhere, Pascal?

Right, it the assignment operator so then I take it
introduction just means to say something is said to denote
something else.

I use to thing the Pascal := had a point since then you could
use = as in math (and don't double down with == for equals)
but I've never given it any more thought since I got hooked on
Lisp and now I realize why ...

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