In celebration of Pi Day 2024, I would like to explain how the “Arithmetic-Geometric Mean” of Gauss and Legendre can be used to give a rapid method for computing the digits of . By “rapid” here, I mean that the algorithm exhibits quadratic convergence: the number of correct digits roughly doubles with each iteration. I […]| Matt Baker's Math Blog
Fannie Merritt Farmer, who was born in 1857, suffered a paralytic stroke in her teenage years that stalled her dreams of a formal education. After she regained the ability to more »| Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Unbound
What better way to celebrate Pi Day than to have a blog post on the digits of $latex \pi$! Giving pi as tips The number $latex \pi$ is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. It…| A Blog on Probability and Statistics
