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Conference rusure::math

Title:Mathematics at DEC
Moderator:RUSURE::EDP
Created:Mon Feb 03 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2083
Total number of notes:14613

149.0. "The Loch Ness Monster" by HARE::STAN () Mon Sep 17 1984 02:32

A picture of the Loch Ness Monster can be formed by graphing the
first 5000 terms of the sequence

		N
	     ------		    4	    
	      \       2 pi i (log k)
	L  =   >     e			.
	 N    /
	     ------
	      k = 1

That is, you plot L  through L     in the complex plane, and then
		   1	      5000

connect together (with straight line segments) successive points.
[I believe natural log is intended, but I am not sure.]

			Reference
			---------
J. H. Loxton, Captain Cook and the Loch Ness Monster, James Cook
	Mathematical Notes. 3(1983)3060-3064.
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