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i just used this with N=400 and got a 1638 decimal place e, then with N=500 and got a 2145 decimal place e:
my computer is too slow to wait for it to go any higher. i don't know how far you can take it out. the number of digits seems to increase with the size of N but i don't know why, nor at what rate this happens. p.s. the result of this code looks to me like e, but i have no idea how accurate it is (beyond being basically accurate, i.e. about 2.71828). i compared it to a 10000 digit calculation of e i found on the Net, and it was only the same up to about 40 decimal places. if you're doing this to get an accurate value of e for later use, i would recommend just finding a calculated and verified version of it on the web (or use the version posted by IO in another response to this parent thread, which, as far as i can tell, reliably generates the actual digits of e). if you're just doing this for fun, then have a blast. In reply to Re: Calculating e
by mdillon
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