Pi Formula: The Tower of Babel
Brouncker's continued fraction for π as an ever-taller tower.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2016-03-14-pi-formula-the-tower-of-babel/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
"The Tower of Babel" "the taller the tower, the closer you get — but we're not there yet…" π = 4 / (1 + 1²/(2 + 3²/(2 + 5²/(2 + 7²/(2 + …)))))