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From: bnolan@ccvax.ucd.ie (Breanndan O Nuallain)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Here are FORMULAS for PI!
Summary: nonsense
Keywords: nonsense
Message-ID: <16952.279225ee@ccvax.ucd.ie>
Date: 14 Jan 91 21:43:10 GMT
References: <1991Jan6.233340.808@NCoast.ORG>
Organization: University College Dublin
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In article <1991Jan6.233340.808@NCoast.ORG>, 
	crds@NCoast.ORG (Glenn A. Emelko) writes:
> Okay, okay -- I waited to see if anyone was going to actually put forth
> any formulas for Pi before I throw in my $1.85 worth of commentary.  Here
>...
> John Gauss, about 1850, VERY slow to converge:
>  
> Pi^2        1     1     1     1
> ---- = 1 + --- + --- + --- + --- ....
>   6        2*2   3*3   4*4   5*5
>  
> This is notable because Gauss succeeded in solving the elusive summation
> of the reciprocals of the squares of the natural numbers -- other than
> that it has little value.  Gauss went on to find similar equations for
> Pi^3 thru Pi^26!
>  

Phew! He was some calculator, that Gauss fella! I reckon 
factorial twenty-six is about 4 * 10**26. That musta been 
his life's work!

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