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Entries from May 2008

Calculating pi

May 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I have a student in Y10 who can recite pi to 200 places, after listening to the pi song rather a lot of times … (see http://pi.ytmnd.com/).  This led to reading more about how to calculate pi, and I found out about the Brent-Salamin algorithm, very clearly explained on Wikipedia.  I tried it out on [...]

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