Around 1910, the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan discovered the formula William Gosper used this series in 1985

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Around 1910, the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan discovered the formula

William Gosper used this series in 1985 to compute the first 17 million digits of π.

(a) Verify that the series is convergent.

(b) How many correct decimal places of π do you get if you use just the first term of the series? What if you use two terms?

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Calculus Early Transcendentals

ISBN: 9781337613927

9th Edition

Authors: James Stewart, Daniel K. Clegg, Saleem Watson, Lothar Redlin

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