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From: mathwft@math.canterbury.ac.nz (Bill Taylor)
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Subject: Re: mathematical expressions
Date: 21 Aug 2001 10:37:16 GMT
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Hmmm...  that coffee looks good!   Must knock off and have some.

But anyway; Markus Gebhard <ukgh@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> writes:

|> Looking again I convert your series into this recursion...

Yep, you can do that, but a hit and miss method might also work.
Hmmm...  maybe that one *was* a bit too hard.


OK then, try this simpler one...

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       /        .------------------------------------------------
      /        /       .-------------------------------------
     /        /       /        .--------------------------
    /        /       /        /        .---------------
   /  1 + 1 / 1 + 2 /  1 + 3 /  1 + 4 /  1 + 5 /~~~...
  v        v       v        v        v        v


A chocolate candy goes to whoever gets the right answer first!

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