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
Happy Pi Day! Also, happy 146th birthday to Albert Einstein. (I love that his birthday is Pi Day. Seems appropriate and makes it so easy to remember.) Over the years, I’ve written quite a bit…| Logos con carne
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