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Pi Formula: Gottfried's Slow Jam

March 14, 2016

The Leibniz series for π, sung as a slow jam because it converges so slowly.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2016-03-14-pi-formula-gottfried-s-slow-jam/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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"Gottfried's Slow Jam" [two musical notes in love] "Gottfried's gonna treat you right: slow and sweet as a moonlit night." π/4 = 1 − 1/3 + 1/5 − 1/7 + 1/9 …

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