Inverse Symbolic Calculator
Appearance
The Inverse Symbolic Calculator is an online Number Checker, which was established July 18 1995 by Simon Plouffe of the Canadian Centre for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics (Burnaby, Canada). You type in a number and a fitting mathematical formula is shown. It can be reached though the link in the external references. The ISC contains 54 million mathematical constants. Plouffe's Inverter (opened in 1998) contains 214 million.
Literature
- John Conway, Richard K. Guy: Zahlenzauber (The Book of Numbers), End of Chapter 1 about Numbers in languages. Birkhäuser, 1997, ISBN 3-7643-5244-2.