[FOM] interesting real number

Martin Davis martin at eipye.com
Sat Apr 15 16:30:51 EDT 2006


Replying to a query by Bob Solovay, Ron Graham wrote:

 > This real is well known to be e^(1/e)

Just to comment that this number has a nostalgic interest for me. When I 
was a freshman I managed to prove that the sequence defined by s_1=x, 
s_{n+1} = x^(s_n) converges precisely for real numbers x satisfying (1/e)^e 
<= x <= e^{1/e).

Martin 




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