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How to estimate the number e on a checkerboard
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e.py
# via https://twitter.com/JohnAllenPaulos/status/743085219511554049
import string
import random
print 64.0 / float(string.count(bin(reduce(lambda x,y: x | (1L<<y), [random.randint(1,64) for _ in range(64)])), '0') - 1)
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