From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: constant `e' Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:43:12 +0100 Organization: disorganized Message-ID: <87d54ha5i7.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> References: <20070210101700.GA885@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171155250 19289 80.91.229.12 (11 Feb 2007 00:54:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:54:10 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 11 01:54:09 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HG2yk-0000Ze-6f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:54:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HG2yj-0004xW-Q2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:54:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HG2yU-0004wJ-Oh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:53:50 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HG2yT-0004vX-9F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:53:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HG2yT-0004vU-3Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:53:49 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HG2yS-0000UT-GX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:53:48 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HG2yE-0007XV-KR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:53:34 +0100 Original-Received: from e178034216.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.34.216]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:53:34 +0100 Original-Received: from david.hansen by e178034216.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:53:34 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 8 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178034216.adsl.alicedsl.de Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:goulKwUMknqdgMq9ejZpUQb8ui4= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:66243 Archived-At: On 10 Feb 2007 10:02:38 +0100 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Despite being a maths graduate, I can't think of any other such constants > with anything like the universality of e and pi. 42 David