Ramanujan, Modular Equations, and Approximations to Pi or How to Compute One Billion Digits of Pi

Lecture Notes in Mathematics

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Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Mathematics Education +4

Fast Multiple-Precision Evaluation of Elementary Functions

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Computing, Computer Science, Mathematics +14

Generalization of the Euclidean algorithm for real numbers to all dimensions higher than two

Helaman Ferguson, Rodney W. Forcade · Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society · 1979 · 91 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Algebra +13

The Arithmetic-Geometric Mean and Fast Computation of Elementary Functions

Jonathan M. Borwein, Peter Borwein · SIAM Review · 1984 · 87 citations

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The evidence

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