The missing fractions in Brouncker's sequence of continued fractions for

DOI10.1017/S0025557200004459MaRDI QIDQ5277940zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thomas J. Osler

Publication date 12 July 2017

Published in The Mathematical Gazette (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025557200004459

zbMATH Keywords

approximation for \(\pi\)lemniscate constantpartial Wallis product

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continued fractions (11A55) Evaluation of number-theoretic constants (11Y60)

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