Machin's formula and Pi

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Authors Yutaka Nishiyama

Publication date 2 May 2013

Full work available at URL http://ijpam.eu/contents/2013-82-3/9/index.html

zbMATH Keywords

Pythagorean trianglesPiArchimedes' methodMachin's formulaGregory's formulaTakano's formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computation of special functions and constants, construction of tables (65D20) Evaluation of number-theoretic constants (11Y60)

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