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The Continued Logarithm of ?

Posted 6 years ago
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POSTED BY: Bill Gosper
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Indeed, very Interesting! @J. M., this is a neat way to define @Bill's products. I typeset them via a matrix here for clarity:

kProduct[k_] := 
Divide@@Array[{{512 #^3,0},{32 #^3(42 # -37),(2 # -1)^3}} &,k,1,Dot][[All, 1]]

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We can see k-th difference is log-linear in k:

ListLogPlot[Table[kProduct[k]-Pi,{k,10}],
    PlotTheme->"Detailed",PlotRange->All,FrameLabel->{k,Log[Pi-kProduct]}]

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POSTED BY: Vitaliy Kaurov
Posted 6 years ago

These matrix products are terribly interesting. The tenth partial product already gives an approximation of ? that is accurate to machine precision:

Divide @@ Array[{{512 #^3, 0},{32 #^3(42 # - 37),(2 # - 1)^3}} &,10,1,Dot][[All, 1]]
   81129638414606681695789005144064/25824365969885544300882143774845

N[%, 20]
   3.1415926535897932397

% - ?
   1.3*10^-18
POSTED BY: J. M.
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