11 Jan
2005
11 Jan
'05
12:28 p.m.
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, N. J. A. Sloane wrote:
The following message gives an alternative value for Pi, 3.1464466. Does any one know what this constant is? Google didn't recognize it.
It may be worth noting that Maple has a built-in procedure, "identify", that sometimes successfully finds a closed form for the decimal approximation of a number. In this case, it gives the same value given by Simon Plouffe:
identify(3.1464466); 1/2 2 7/2 - ---- 4