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99.17 Irrational sums from reciprocals of factorials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2015

Martin Griffiths
Martin Griffiths*
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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 99 , Issue 545 , July 2015 , pp. 331 - 335
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