On Feb 21, 12:08 am, Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 20, 8:08 am, Raymond Hettinger <pyt...@rcn.com> wrote: > > > [...] > > >>> n * e > > > 3.1415926
> Very neat! Is it supposed to be obvious why this gives an > approximation to pi? If so, I'll think about it a bit more; if not, > do you have any references? Even after reading the proof, I still don't find it to be obvious ;-) http://home.comcast.net/~davejanelle/mandel.pdf Raymond -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list