Young Alan Turing and the Arctangent
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In other words, there is more than one function that satisfies the relation f(2x) = f(x) * f(x), so we need to find some more constraints to exactly pin down the Maclaurin expansion of exp(x).
This is the book I remember seeing named in the credits: http://www.amazon.com/Alan-Turing-Enigma-Inspired-Imitation-...