Re: [math-fun] record computation of Pi ,

Shouldn't this be a "teachable moment", which provides the mathematics community an opportunity to gently inform the press & public about *continued fractions* (hint -- they're not about distillation towers or chaotic insurgents) ? I always felt let down by my (otherwise excellent) high school math education for not teaching me anything about continued fractions. At 11:07 AM 12/11/2016, Eugene Salamin via math-fun wrote:

I'll guess that it's a PR decision to use decimal, something the general public can understand. Perhaps some of these pi calculators could be persuaded to weigh in with their own explanation for the choice of decimal over continued fraction.