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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!ogicse!hsdndev!husc-news.harvard.edu!blom
  2. From: blom@husc15.harvard.edu
  3. Newsgroups: sci.math
  4. Subject: exp(pi*sqrt(x))
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov22.124131.17689@husc15.harvard.edu>
  6. Date: 22 Nov 92 17:41:31 GMT
  7. Article-I.D.: husc15.1992Nov22.124131.17689
  8. Organization: Harvard University Science Center
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  11. Aitken once remarked that exp(pi*sqrt(163)) differs from an integer by
  12. less than 10^-12.  Why and when does exp(pi*sqrt(x)) approximate an integer?
  13.  
  14. --Eric Blom
  15.   Harvard U 
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