A BBP-style computation for π in base 5

2024/09/16 by Zudilin, Wadim
#11Y60 #Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA) #FOS: Mathematics #Number Theory (math.NT)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2409.10097

Abstract

We joke about how to compute (promptly) the digits of π, in base 5, from a given place without computing preceding ones.

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