# What's up with Plouffe's inverter? Is there an alternative?

For quite some time now (at least a year), whenever I tried to use Plouffe's inverter, the request timed out, but there's no indication either on the site itself or on the Web that it's out of service or having problems. Does anyone know whether it's still online? Have I just been extremely unlucky?

Also, if it really is offline or practically unusable, do you know of any alternatives? I know OEIS, but that's for integer sequences, and its use for decimal representations of real numbers feels a bit unnatural (though it has quite a few sequences of that kind).

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Wolfram Alpha... – Hans Lundmark Oct 24 '12 at 19:14
@Hans: Cool, I didn't know it does that :-) – joriki Oct 24 '12 at 20:59
About 2 weeks ago, seeing such matters, I succeeded to find a substitute on the Internet. It worked fine. Now I'm trying to track it down again -- and I can't! I did not remember that working URL, because I thought the flaw at the original site was temporary. If I find the working software again, I'll share the URL with you. – user51003 Nov 28 '12 at 10:52
Heh. I guess you've cleared your cache since then? – Simon Hayward Nov 28 '12 at 11:14

From the ISC+ site: The lookup tables include a substantial data set compiled by S. Plouffe both before and during his period as an employee at CECM. So it seems to be the legitimate successor to Plouffe's inverter. – Christian Clason Nov 28 '12 at 13:07