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WhiteSage on Sept 21, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Get Billions of Correct Digits of Pi from a Wrong ...

What is surprising is how small the error term is. For the sake of comparison, (1+10^-5)^(10^5) only gets five digits of e right.

saagarjha on Sept 22, 2018 | [–]

And this one gets fewer than a hundred.

philbot1008 on Sept 21, 2018 | [–]

I would be more surprised if the "formula" didn't include the value of pi.

Edit: I'm an idiot, and blind. It was 'n', not pi.

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