Re: A86: permanent effects
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Re: A86: permanent effects
I saw an explination of this once. It has to do with chaos theory and
your roundiong problem. You will never have enough decimal places to
properly graph this problem because there isn't enough accuracy within
the calculator and the results soon become chaotic (calculators, unlike
math teachers, can't understand infinite precision). If you tried to do
this problem on an HP, by hand with a scientific calculator, and with the
86 you would get three different answers.
On Sat, 6 Dec 1997 02:32:19 -0500 Rosyna <rosyna@bright.net> writes:
>I wanna knopw how to increase the roundings now (I think its currently
>16th place) because limit= n -> ƒ (1+(1/n))^n (If that looks funny
>its
>cause your PC cant handle the truth) I want you to graph (1+(1/x))^x
>in the Func mode and xMin=0
>
>xMax=2e14
>
>Step=1 (for both)
>
>yMin=0
>
>yMax=9
>
>
>and you can see how screwed up rounding can get
>
>
>That is suppose to equal e^1
>
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