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Computation of Pi

Maple is now using the Chudnovsky's formula for computing to high precision. Their formula is

To implement this formula, the series has been expressed as a 4, 3 argument hypergeometric function which is computed using the routine mentioned above. This method is about 30%faster in Maple than the previous method (a similar formula due to Ramanujan).


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