The Computation of Pi by Archimedes

Contents

• Abstract
• The General Plan
• The Context
• The Computation of 
• Advice to the Reader
• The Outer n-gon
• Hand Calculation
• MATLAB fractions
• Bounds for Irrational Numbers
• Square Roots of Rationals
• Getting the Continued Fraction
• The Upper Bound
• Iterating
• The Lower Bound
• Iterating
• QED
•   References 
• Summary

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