1873/12/31 by William Shanks · 1 citation
Mathematics · #History and Theory of Mathematics #Mathematical and Theoretical Analysis #Mathematics and Applications #Extension (predicate logic) #Value (mathematics) #Computation #Decimal #Mathematics #Mathematical economics #Computer science #Arithmetic #Statistics #Algorithm
paper · doi:10.1098/rspl.1872.0066
openalex publication_date 1873/12/31 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Abstract In the ‘Messenger of Mathematics’ for Dec. 1872, J. W. L. Glaisher, Esq., has given some very interesting particulars regarding the calculation of π, in the justness of which the author generally concurs. He, however, differs from him as to the comparative merits of Van Ceulen, who, in the early part of the seventeenth century, calculated π to 36 decimals. Hutton’s formula also, given in the ‘ Messenger,’ appears, notwithstanding Hutton’s own opinion, to be not so well adapted for extensive computation as Machin’s, which the author has used on the present as well as former occasions, regarding it as the best yet found.