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The comparative efficiency of the different methods in which Pi is calculated

Nouri Al-Othman
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An investigation of the comparative efficiency of the different methods in which π is cal- culated. This thesis will compare and contrast five different methods in calculating π by first deriving the various proofs to each method and then creating graphical displays and tables with percentage errors on each to allow a thorough comparison between each method. It is important to realize that usually people refer to π as 3.142 and use this shortened value in everyday calculations. However, most people in society do not know that in some of NASAs calculations, must be calculated to 15 decimal places (3.141592653589793) for calculations involving the Space Station Guidance Navigation and Control (GNC) code [9]. Furthermore, some people use the world renown constant everyday yet have no idea where it comes from. This thesis allows a thorough exploration of the different methods of calculating pi by us- ing Mathematica to provide the necessary iterations needed and Microsoft excel to plot the various graphs for convergence comparisons. Finally, the conclusions that have come from this thesis demonstrate that methods in which oscillations between the positive and negative region of the line y = π slow down the rate of convergence and out of the five methods investigated, The infinite series formulated from ζ(8) proves to be one of the fastest infinite series today to converge towards π.

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Nouri Al-Othman. 2013-10-17. The comparative efficiency of the different methods in which Pi is calculated. https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.5610

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