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What is the actual equation? They just list the first couple of terms.
by hervature 7y ago
What is the actual equation? They just list the first couple of terms.
- ajennings 7y agoGood question. I just presented it here the way it was given to me, as a couple initial terms and some rules on how it evolves, because I find that to be the easiest way to remember it. The actual formula looks much less friendly (because it's tricky to write "the product of the first n odd integers"), but it's a good exercise for those who are inclined.
- hsnewman 7y agoThe article says: let i = 1n; let x = 3n * (10n 1000020n); let pi = x; while (x > 0) { x = x * i / ((i + 1n) * 4n); pi += x / (i + 2n); i += 2n; } console.log(pi / (10n 20n));
- mkl 7y agoContinuing the pattern it's $\pi = 3 + \sum_{k=1}^\infty 3 \frac{(2k-1)!!}{(2k)!!} \frac{1}{2k+1} \frac{1}{4^k}$ [1]. n!! is double factorial, the product of odd or even numbers up to n (depending on whether n is odd or even) [2]. Edit: added a simpler series from https://math.stackexchange.com/a/14116 https://math.stackexchange.com/a/14116: $\pi = \sum_{k=0}^{\infty} \frac{(2k)!!}{(2k+1)!!} \left(\frac{1}{2}\right)^{k-1}$ [1] https://imgur.com/a/YtA8kUx https://imgur.com/a/YtA8kUx [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_factorial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_factorial