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Morphing Lord Brouncker's continued fraction for π into the product of Wallis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 January 2015
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Three of the oldest and most celebrated formulae for π are:
The first is Vieta's product of nested radicals from 1592 [1]. The second is Wallis's product of rational numbers [2] from 1656 and the third is Lord Brouncker's continued fraction [3,2], also from 1656. (In the remainder of the paper, for continued fractions we will use the more convenient notation
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