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how to compute pi by using continued fraction?

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• Subject: [mg11915] how to compute pi by using continued fraction?
• From: "Jing S Chen" <jchen06@rocketmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 00:33:17 -0400
• Organization: CSUnet

Hello:
    I'm a student of City College of San Francisco. Right now, I have a
project that I've been working on at least 4 days. Yet I still have no
idea at all.
    The purpose of the project is to compute pi by using continued
fraction. Here is the formula.

pi = 3 + ( 1 / ( 7 + ( 1 / ( 7 + ( 1 / ( .... 1 / 7)

that means
                     1
pi = 3 + -----------
               7 + /   1               \
                    (   ------            )
                     \   7 +            /
                           .......
                                   1
                             +   ----
                                    7


Is here any one who has a program that can follow the above formula and
can generate pi?

Jing S. Chen
e-mail: jchen06@hills.ccsf.cc.ca.us

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