[LUAU] doing 'e'

[Jim Thompson]

Tim Newsham wrote:

>> Lets see a perl/python/... equivalent to this lisp exercise for 
>> obtaining 'e':
>
> [...]
>
>> Euler's number, 'e', is approximately 2.7182818284590452354, and this 
>> is a highly-inefficient way to extract it, but
>> the function does tend toward 'e'.)
>>
>> Jim
>
>
> If you like this kind of stuff, you'd probably get a kick out of
> Doug McIlroy's "The Music of Streams", available on his home page:
> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/

Doug, of course, is a long-standing member of the Unix community.
(And thanks, I didn't know about "The Music of Streams".

Here is a large collection of programming "e-books".
http://www.programmingebooks.tk/

just in-case anyone is getting the itch.