[Edu-sig] Ramanujan's Pi (an exercise with generator & decimal features)

[kirby urner]

On 9/3/06, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote:
> So here I'm using Python's new extended precision decimal type with
> one of Ramanujan's crazy pi engines:
>
> http://people.bath.ac.uk/ma2lg/project/ramanuja.htm
>

University of Bath took the above off-line on the following day, maybe
noticing a spike in accesses and realizing this was an old student
account, no longer relevant.

Pure speculation on my part.

Here's another link, I hope more solid, for this marvelous generator for 1/pi:
http://rooster.stanford.edu/%7Eben/maths/pi/ramanujan.html

Kirby