

“I mumbled something about how it was easy to calculate e to any power using that series (you just substitute the power for x). 鈥淥h yeah?鈥 they said, 鈥淲ell, then, what鈥檚 e to the 3.3?鈥 said some joker鈥擨 think it was Tukey. I say, 鈥淭hat鈥檚 easy. It鈥檚 27.11.鈥 Tukey knows it isn鈥檛 so easy to compute all that in your head. 鈥淗ey! How鈥檇 you do that?鈥 Another guy says, 鈥淵ou know Feynman, he鈥檚 just faking it. It鈥檚 not really right.鈥 They go to get a table, and while they鈥檙e doing that, I put on a few more figures: 鈥27.1126,鈥 I say. They find it in the table. 鈥淚t鈥檚 right! But how鈥檇 you do it!鈥 鈥淚 just summed the series.鈥 鈥淣obody can sum the series that fast. You must just happen to know that one. How about e to the 3?鈥 鈥淟ook,鈥 I say. 鈥淚t鈥檚 hard work! Only one a day!鈥 鈥淗ah! It鈥檚 a fake!鈥 they say, happily. 鈥淎ll right,鈥 I say, 鈥淚t鈥檚 20.085.”
― Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character
― Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character

“How much do you value life?鈥 鈥淪ixty-four.”
― Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character
― Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character

“Allow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all.”
― Letters to a Young Contrarian
― Letters to a Young Contrarian

“I don鈥檛 know what鈥檚 the matter with people: they don鈥檛 learn by understanding; they learn by some other way鈥攂y rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!”
― Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character
― Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character
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