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The decimals of e for the HP-41

This program is Copyright © 2004 by Jean-Marc Baillard and is used here by permission.

This program is supplied without representation or warranty of any kind. Jean-Marc Baillard and The Museum of HP Calculators therefore assume no responsibility and shall have no liability, consequential or otherwise, of any kind arising from the use of this program material or any part thereof.

Overview

-The number e is defined by the series:  1 + 1/1! + 1/2! + 1/3! + ....... + 1/k! + .....     where  k! = 1*2*3*.....*(k-1)*k
-In the following program, we calculate 7n decimals of e , and the sum is re-written    1+(1+(1/2)(1+(1/3)(1+(1/4)(1+....(1+(1/k))...)))
-The last integer k is given by lines 04 thru 14 which use an approximate and empirical formula to obtain k such that  k.k! > 107n
 ( this formula may certainly be improved ... )
-The results are stored in registers R01 thru Rnn by groups of 7 digits ( add zeros on the left if need be ).
 

Data Registers:             R00 = n ;  R01 to Rnn = the 7n decimals of e
Flags: /
Subroutines: /
 

Program listing
 

01  LBL "E^1"
02  CLRG
03  STO 00
04  7
05  *
06  7
07  +
08  .84
09  Y^X
10  1.36
11  *
12  2
13  +
14  INT
15  STO M
16  SIGN
17  RCL 00
18   E3
19  /
20  +
21  STO N
22   E7
23  STO O
24  SIGN
25  LBL 01
26  RCL N
27  LASTX
28  ST+ 01
29  CLX
30  LBL 02
31  ST+ IND Y
32  CLX
33  RCL IND Y
34  RCL M
35  MOD
36  ST- IND Y
37  LASTX
38  ST/ IND Z
39  CLX
40  RCL O
41  *
42  ISG Y
43  GTO 02
44  DSE M
45  GTO 01
46  LASTX
47  ST+ 01
48  ST/ 01
49  CLA
50  END

( 82 bytes / SIZE nnn+1 )
 
 
      STACK        INPUTS      OUTPUTS
           X             n             /

Example:     To find 70 decimals of e  press  10  XEQ "E^1"  and 4mn20s later, we have the result in registers R01 to R10:

  R01 = 2.7182818 ; R02 = 2845904 ; R03 = 5235360 ; R04 = 2874713 ; R05 = 5266249
  R06 =    7757247 ; R07 =   936999 ; R08 = 5957496 ; R09 = 6967627 ; R10 = 7240766   ( R07 is to be read  0936999 )

whence   e = 2.7182818,2845904,5235360,2874713,5266249,7757247,0936999,5957496,6967627,7240766 .....

-This program finds 140 decimals in about 14mn24s
-It can find ( at the most )  2226 decimals with n = 318 , but execution time is probably of the order of 37 hours!
 
 
 

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