OK - Sorry I have chosen a poor example - I should have stuck to pi throughout!
but I hope the review can concentrate on what emerged previously as the _really_ tricky issue of how to _present_ the values in C++, before we tackle the much easier, (if still contentious) issue of individual names of constants. Paul Paul A Bristow Prizet Farmhouse, Kendal, Cumbria, LA8 8AB UK | -----Original Message----- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Reece Dunn | Sent: 06 June 2003 15:47 | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: [boost] Math Constants Formal Review | This is the Euler-Mascheroni Constant | (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Euler-MascheroniConstant.html), and is denoted by a gamma or as C: const float C = 0.5772156649015328606065120900824024310422F; // Euler-Mascheroni constant >I would have expected e to be 2.71828... So would I. The Euler constant has the value e = 2.718281828459045235360287471352662497757... (source: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/e.html) Regards, Reece _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
