[seqfan] Re: Another approximation of pi

Peter Luschny peter.luschny at gmail.com
Wed Oct 3 19:57:30 CEST 2012


Robert Israel:
>Of course there's also
>pi = ((-1)^(n+1) 2 Zeta(2 n) (2 n)! /bernoulli(2 n))^(1/(2 n))/2
>so
>pi ~= ((-1)^(n+1) 2 (1 + 2^{-2n} + ...) (2 n)! /bernoulli(2 n))^(1/(2 n))/2

Apropos Zeta, what about a formula with Zeta(1/2)?
Ok, here is the full story:
http://www.luschny.de/math/euler/GammaQuotientsAsRadicals.html

Peter



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