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From: dbell@cup.portal.com (David J Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Here are FORMULAS for PI!
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Date: 16 Jan 91 06:26:12 GMT
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>> John Gauss, about 1850, VERY slow to converge:
>>  
>> 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!
 
       ,  ,      ,
>Breanndan O Nuallain        Department of Computer Science
>                            University College Dublin
 
And then, he went and raised PI to that power - with GAMMA,
I made it about 6.8e28....
 
Dave          dbell@cup.portal.com