Lazzarini's Lucky Approximation of π

DOI10.2307/2690682MaRDI QIDQ4306452zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Lee Badger

Publication date 22 December 1997

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2690682

zbMATH Keywords

Buffon's needle experimentHistory of \(\pi\)probability theoryStirling's formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Evaluation of number-theoretic constants (11Y60) Functions of one variable (26A99)

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