Re: The next exercise

[Michael Heerdegen]

Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com> writes:

> Emacs can still do that:
>
> (let ((integer-width 200000))
>      (substring (number-to-string (expt 10001 10000)) 0 4))
> => "2718"

Indeed:

(let ((integer-width 20000000))
     (substring (number-to-string (expt 1000001 1000000)) 0 6))
==> 271828

6 digits from e.  But there it starts to take some time.

Michael.