John B. Matthews wrote:
In article <H7mdnd0vhda2wn3WnZ2dnUVZ_qmdnZ2d@giganews.com>, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:BTW, does anyone recognize these power series? The first is: Sum (n=1 to 5) (x^n/n)This looks like the Maclaurin series for -ln(1 - x):
Excellent! So line 420 could be more efficiently (and more accurately) written as: 420 Q=S*K/M: J=V+G*S+Z*log(1-Q) -michael NadaNet 3.0 for Apple II parallel computing! Home page: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."