[seqfan] Introduction of Joe Crump

[Olivier Gerard]

At 22:57 +0200 98.04.02, Joe Crump wrote:

> One suggestion I have, if it isn't already available, is
> to also have an encyclopedia/anaylsis engine, for real
> numbers using known constants and common operations.
> I once had a book called a "dictionary of real numbers"
> which did this, and it would be great to have an on-line
> tool like it, but with todays technology it could be
> very powerful. The key reason for this would be for
> people who calculate values empirically and want to
> know if it has a special form. Is there already such
> a tool?

Not only is this tool already available but the creator
is on the list. Seems that Microsoft people are great at
trying to reinvent things already done several times before.


Simon Plouffe's inverter (formerly the ISC) is at:
http://www.lacim.uqam.ca/pi/


Olivier Gerard