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One of the fastest method of calculating π, if not the fastest of all, is almost 200 years old. It was invented by the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) around 1800. It was subsequently forgotten and only unearthed 170 years later, when two researchers, Eugene Salamin [100] and Richard Brent [37] independently rediscovered it at the same time and turned it into the basis for superfast π calculations.
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Arndt, J., Haenel, C. (2001). Gauss and π. In: Pi — Unleashed. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56735-3_7
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