The missing fractions in Brouncker's sequence of continued fractions for π

DOI10.1017/S0025557200004459zbMath1383.11129OpenAlexW2411113175MaRDI QIDQ5277940

Thomas J. Osler

Publication date: 12 July 2017

Published in: The Mathematical Gazette (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025557200004459

zbMATH Keywords

lemniscate constantapproximation for \(\pi\)partial Wallis product

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continued fractions (11A55) Evaluation of number-theoretic constants (11Y60)

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