Approximating Hyperbolic Tangent
https://jtomschroeder.com/blog/approximating-tanh/
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Approximating Hyperbolic Tangent
https://jtomschroeder.com/blog/approximating-tanh/
#HackerNews #ApproximatingTanh #HyperbolicFunctions #MathBlog #ComputationalMath #NumericalMethods
Not all elementary functions can be expressed with exp-minus-log
https://www.stylewarning.com/posts/not-all-elementary/
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🌀 Today’s dive into ζ′/ζ
Spent the morning peeling back another layer of the zeta function. Turns out: if you zoom in on height t, only the zeros ρ with ∣𝑡ᵨ−𝑡∣≤1 really matter (𝐼𝑚(ρ)=𝑡ᵨ) — everything else dissolves into a clean O(log∣t∣) haze.
It’s wild how much structure hides behind a single identity: \( \frac{\zeta'(s)}{\zeta(s)}
= -\frac{1}{s-1}
+ \sum_{\rho:\, |t_\rho - t|\le 1} \frac{1}{s-\rho}
+ O(\log(|t|+4)). \)
Not easy stuff, but exactly the kind of scaffolding we can build on top of The Riemann Hypothesis Revealed. Every step makes the landscape a little less mysterious.
Onward.
🔗https://cortexdrifter.blogspot.com/2026/04/a-small-taste-from-my-new-book-season-2.html
Carnival of Mathematics 210
https://aperiodical.com/2022/11/carnival-of-mathematics-210/