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An ENIAC Determination of π and e to more than 2000 Decimal Places
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Abstract
Early in June, 1949, Professor John von Neumann expressed an interest in the possibility that the ENIAC might sometime be employed to determine the value of π and e to many decimal places with a view toward obtaining a statistical measure of the randomness of distribution of the digits, suggesting the employment of one of the formulas:
in conjunction with the Gregory series
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π/4 = 4 arctan 1/5 − arctan 1/239
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π/4 = 8 arctan 1/10 − 4 arctan 1/515 − arctan 1/239
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π/4 = 3 arctan 1/4 + arctan 1/20 + arctan 1/1985
$$
\arctan \;x = \sum\limits_{n = 0}^\infty {{{( - 1)}^n}} {(2n + 1)^{ - 1}}{x^{2n + 1}}.
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Keywords
Decimal Place Successive Term Cumulative Total Check Sequence Aberdeen Prove Ground
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