q-Analog of Pi - Evaluate at q=2, ... ?
Paul D. Hanna
pauldhanna at juno.com
Sat Jan 20 14:46:27 CET 2007
SeqFans,
The q-analog of Pi is described at:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/q-Pi.html
which gives an iterative algorithm for computing q-Pi
but the algorithm involves q^2-Pi and q^4-Pi and so
seems difficult (to me) to find a starting point.
But perhaps one of you can make sense of it,
or find another way to attain the value,
such as using the q-sine definition.
Can someone compute q-Pi for q=2, 3, 4?
Of course, q-Pi at q=1 is the classical value 3.14159265...
Thanks,
Paul
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