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- From: jk87377@cc.tut.fi (Juhana Kouhia)
- Subject: Re: Looking for fast methods of computing PI
- Message-ID: <1992Oct13.124815.2368@cc.tut.fi>
- Organization: Tampere University of Technology
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- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 12:48:15 GMT
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- In article <1992Oct13.025820.4593@eecs.nwu.edu> kaufman@eecs.nwu.edu
- (Michael L. Kaufman) writes:
- >
- >I read an article a few years ago in some magazine (I think it was Discover)
- >that talked about two people who had come up with a fast way of computing PI.
-
- Hi,
-
- The below is my updated list of pi references; there's some
- interesting articles, for example:
-
- J.M. Borwein and P.B. Borwein
- More Ramanujan-type series for 1/pi
- pp. 359-374 in Ramanujan Revisited [Proceedings of the 1987
- Illinois Ramanujan Centenary Conference], Academic Press(1988)
- -includes the series the Chudnovskys used in their record
- computation and many others of a similar ilk
-
- Chudnovskys were the two people, I guess.
- The proceeding is maybe difficult to find.
-
- There is an article on them in New Yorker, but I don't have a
- reference for it -- I supposed to be, but... ok, I would like to get
- the reference.
- Also, if there's an article on Discover, then please...
-
- Check article
- J.M. Borwein and P.B. Borwein
- Ramanujan and pi
- Scientific American, Feb 1988, pp. 112-117
- for the start.
-
-
- Juhana Kouhia
-
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- Compiled by Juhana Kouhia, jk87377@cs.tut.fi
- Last update Oct 13, 1992
-
- Please send updates to Juhana Kouhia
-
- Comments starting with '-' are written by J.M. Borwein
- and Mark Brader (marked).
-
- There's two electronic news articles written by Allan Adler and Mark
- Brader about the law in the US state of Indiana which would have
- assigned a value to pi, in the year 1897.
- To get electronic news articles above, send a request to me.
- [See also Edington and Singmaster references]
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-
- David H. Bailey
- The computation of pi to 29,360,000 decimal digits using Borwein'
- quartically convergent algorithm
- Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 50, No. 181, Jan 1988, pp. 283-296
-
- David H. Bailey
- Numerical results on the transcendence of constants involving pi,
- e, and Euler's constant
- Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 50, No. 181, Jan 1988, pp. 275-281
-
- P. Beckmann
- A history of pi
- Golem Press, CO, 1971 (fourth edition 1977)
-
- J.M. Borwein and P.B. Borwein
- The arithmetic-geometric mean and fast computation of elementary
- functions
- SIAM Review, Vol. 26, 1984, pp. 351-366
-
- J.M. Borwein and P.B. Borwein
- More quadratically converging algorithms for pi
- Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 46, 1986, pp. 247-253
-
- J.M. Borwein and P.B. Borwein
- An explicit cubic iteration for 9
- BIT, Vol. 26, 1986, pp. 123-126
-
- J.M. Borwein and P.B. Borwein
- Pi and the AGM. A Study in Analytic Number Theory and Computational Complexity
- John Wiley & Sons. New York, 1987
-
- J.M. Borwein and P.B. Borwein
- More Ramanujan-type series for 1/pi
- pp. 359-374 in Ramanujan Revisited [Proceedings of the 1987
- Illinois Ramanujan Centenary Conference], Academic Press(1988)
- -includes the series the Chudnovskys used in their record
- computation and many others of a similar ilk
-
- J.M. Borwein and P.B. Borwein
- Ramanujan and pi
- Scientific American, Feb 1988, pp. 112-117
-
- J.M. Borwein, P.B. Borwein, and K. Dilcher
- Euler numbers, asymptotic expansions and pi
- American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 96, 1989, pp. 681-687
- -relates Gregory's series and Pi and Euler numbers
-
- J.M. Borwein, P.B. Borwein, and D. A. Bailey
- Ramanujan, modular equations and pi or how to compute a billion digits
- of pi
- American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 96, 1989, pp. 201-219
-
- J.M. Borwein and P.B. Borwein
- Approximating pi with Ramanujan's solvable modular equations
- Proceedings of the 1986 Edmonton conference on Constructive Function
- Theory, Rocky Mountain J., Vol. 19, 1989, pp. 93-102
- -gives the algebraically most surprising iterations for Pi
-
- J.M. Borwein and P.B. Borwein
- A cubic counterpart of Jacobi's identity and the AGM
- Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., Vol. 323, 1991, pp. 691-701
- -contains three of the fastest known iterations for Pi
-
- J.M. Borwein and P.B. Borwein
- Class number three Ramanujan type series for 1/pi
- Journal of Computational and Applied Math (Special Issue), xx(1992)
-
- J.M. Borwein and I.J. Zucker
- Elliptic integral evaluation of the Gamma function at rational values
- of small denominator
- IMA J. of Numer Analysis, xx(1992)
- -includes agm based iterations for Gamma(n/24): since
- Gamma(1/2)=Pi^(1/2) this is closely related
-
- Shlomo Breuer and Gideon Zwas
- Mathematical-educational aspects of the computation of pi
- Int. J. Math. Educ. Sci. Technol., Vol. 15, No. 2, 1984, pp. 231-244
-
- Will E. Edington
- House Bill No. 246, Indiana State Legislature, 1897
- Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science, (month unknown), 1935
- -This article is about the law in the US state of Indiana which would
- have assigned a value to pi, in the year 1897. [ -- Mark Brader]
- [See also Singmaster article]
-
- Harley Flanders
- Algorithm of the bi-month: Computing pi
- College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 18, 1987, pp. 230-235
-
- Y. Kanada and Y. Tamura
- Calculation of pi to 10,013,395 decimal places based on the
- Gauss-Legendre algorithm and Gauss arctangent relation
- Computer Centre, University of Tokyo, 1983
-
- R. Lynch and H.A. Mavromatis
- N-dimensional harmonic oscillator yields monotonic series for the
- mathematical constant pi
- Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 30, No. 2,
- May 1990, pp. 127-137
-
- H.A. Mavromatis
- Two doubly infinite sets of series for pi
- Journal of Approximation Theory, Vol. 60, 1990, pp. 1-10
-
- N.D. Mermin
- Pi in the sky
- Letter to the Editor
- American Journal of Physics, Vol. 55, 1987, p. 584
-
- D.J. Newman
- A simplified version of the fast algorithms of Brent and Salamin
- Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 44, No. 169, Jan 1985, pp. 207-210
-
- Morris Newman and Daniel Shanks
- On a sequence arising in series for pi
- Mathematics of computation, Vol. 42, No. 165, Jan 1984, pp. 199-217
-
- E. Salamin
- Computation of pi using arithmetic-geometric mean
- Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 30, 1976, pp. 565-570
-
- D. Shanks and J.W. Wrench, Jr.
- Calculation of pi to 100,000 decimals
- Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 16, 1962, pp. 76-99
-
- Daniel Shanks
- Dihedral quartic approximations and series for pi
- J. Number Theory, Vol. 14, 1982, pp.397-423
-
- David Singmaster
- The legal values of pi
- The Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1985
- [See also Edington article]
-
- John Todd
- A very large slice of pi
- Review for the book "Pi and the AGM. A study in analytic number theory
- and computational complexity" by J.M. Borwein and P.B. Borwein
- The Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol. 11, No. 3, 1989, pp. 73-77
-
- Stan Wagon
- Is pi normal?
- The Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1985, pp. 65-67
-
- J.W. Wrench, Jr.
- The evolution of extended decimal approximations to pi
- The Mathematics Teacher, Vol. 53, 1960, pp. 644-650
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