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- From: brumleve@gauss (Dan Brumleve)
- Subject: Re: Pi in beatiful form --lost
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 04:12:55 GMT
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- sbardhan@uncc.edu (Soumendu Bardhan) writes:
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- >I hope Mathematicians especially Pi'ans could help me remember this beautiful form of pi.
- >I can only faintly remember this beautiful form invented by Ramanujam
- >pi = (1*2)/(3*4) +(5*6)/(6*7)....
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- >All I remember is that it is very close to this representation ....it involved multiplication of two numbers
- >and divsion by two very close numbers .. it was indeed one of the fascinating forms.
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- >Thanks
- >--bardhan
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- I'm pretty sure it's this...
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- 4 * (2/1) * (2/3) * (4/3) * (4/5) * (6/5) * (6/7) * ...
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- -Dan
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