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The arithmetic-geometric mean of two numbers a and b is defined to be the common limit of the two sequences \(\left\{ {{a_n}} \right\}_{n = 0}^\infty \) and \(\left\{ {{b_n}} \right\}_{n = 0}^\infty \) determined by the algorithm
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Cox, D.A. (2000). The Arithmetic-Geometric Mean of Gauss. In: Pi: A Source Book. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3240-5_55
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