2007/12/04

there is soooo much on line

Actually I am quite impressed by how much can be found
on-line. For instance, yesterday I found that
Abramowitz and Stegun is on-line:
http://www.math.sfu.ca/~cbm/aands/
When I started math in 1978, this was THE reference
for numerical results. For many years I had a
copy of the table with prime numbers with me.
Apparently this part was not copied; only the formulas
are.