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88.38 Some observations on the method of arctangents for the calculation of π

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Hwang Chien-Lih
Hwang Chien-Lih*
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Dept of Mathematics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, hcl@math.ntu.edu.tw
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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 88 , Issue 512 , July 2004 , pp. 270 - 278
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