• DOI:10.1007/BF03024340
Corpus ID: 14318695

The quest for PI

@article{Bailey1997TheQF,
  title={The quest for PI},
  author={D. Bailey and Simon Plouffe and P. Borwein and J. Borwein},
  journal={The Mathematical Intelligencer},
  year={1997},
  volume={19},
  pages={50-56}
}

• D. Bailey, Simon Plouffe, +1 author J. Borwein
• Published 1997
• Mathematics
• The Mathematical Intelligencer

This article gives a brief history of the analysis and computation of the mathematical constant $\pi = 3.14159 \ldots$, including a number of the formulas that have been used to compute $\pi$ through the ages. Recent developments in this area are then discussed in some detail, including the recent computation of $\pi$ to over six billion decimal digits using high-order convergent algorithms, and a newly discovered scheme that permits arbitrary individual hexadecimal digits of $\pi$ to be… Expand