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  2. List of formulae involving π - Wikipedia

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    Perhaps the most notable hypergeometric inversions are the following two examples, involving the Ramanujan tau function and the Fourier coefficients of the J-invariant (OEIS: A000521): ∑ n = − 1 ∞ j n q n = 256 ( 1 − z + z 2 ) 3 z 2 ( 1 − z ) 2 , {\displaystyle \sum _{n=-1}^{\infty }\mathrm {j} _{n}q^{n}=256{\dfrac {(1-z+z^{2})^{3}}{z ...

  3. Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula - Wikipedia

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    Since we only care about the fractional part of the sum, we look at our two terms and realise that only the first sum contains terms with an integer part; conversely, the second sum doesn't contain terms with an integer part, since the numerator can never be larger than the denominator for k > n. Therefore, we need a trick to remove the integer ...

  4. Liu Hui's π algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Liu Hui's method of calculating the area of a circle. Liu Hui's π algorithm was invented by Liu Hui (fl. 3rd century), a mathematician of the state of Cao Wei.Before his time, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter was often taken experimentally as three in China, while Zhang Heng (78–139) rendered it as 3.1724 (from the proportion of the celestial circle to the diameter ...

  5. List of algorithms - Wikipedia

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    An algorithm is fundamentally a set of rules or defined procedures that is typically designed and used to solve a specific problem or a broad set of problems.. Broadly, algorithms define process(es), sets of rules, or methodologies that are to be followed in calculations, data processing, data mining, pattern recognition, automated reasoning or other problem-solving operations.

  6. Wikipedia:Graphs and charts - Wikipedia

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    {} is an experimental graph-drawing template that produces a pie chart 200 pixels wide in the article. When making a pie chart, ensure that the segments are ordered by size (largest to smallest) and in a clockwise direction. [clarification needed] Setting the other parameter to yes will pad the chart so that the values total to 100.

  7. Pie chart - Wikipedia

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    Pie chart of populations of English native speakers. A pie chart (or a circle chart) is a circular statistical graphic which is divided into slices to illustrate numerical proportion. In a pie chart, the arc length of each slice (and consequently its central angle and area) is proportional to the quantity it represents.

  8. Step function - Wikipedia

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    The Heaviside step function is an often-used step function. A constant function is a trivial example of a step function. Then there is only one interval, =. The sign function sgn(x), which is −1 for negative numbers and +1 for positive numbers, and is the simplest non-constant step function.

  9. Approximations of π - Wikipedia

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    It is equal to + / + /, which is accurate to two sexagesimal digits. The Chinese mathematician Liu Hui in 263 CE computed π to between 3.141 024 and 3.142 708 by inscribing a 96-gon and 192-gon; the average of these two values is 3.141 866 (accuracy 9·10 −5). He also suggested that 3.14 was a good enough approximation for practical purposes.