Archimedes' Approximation of Pi - http://itech.fgcu.edu/faculty/clindsey/mhf4404/archimedes/archimedes.html
Describes the method introduced by Archimedes for approximating Pi. |
Bailey on Pi - http://www.lbl.gov/wonder/bailey.html
Briefly explains David Bailey's work with NASA's supercomputers and the development of a workable formula to evaluate Pi for any number of decimal places. |
David Bailey's Pi Directory - http://crd.lbl.gov/~dhbailey/pi/index.html
Articles, papers, programmes, tools, algorithms on the calculation of pi. |
Fabrice Bellard's PI page - http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/pi/
Showcases digit extraction and FFT multiplication algorithms. |
John Mathews' bibliography for Computation of Pi - http://math.fullerton.edu/mathews/n2003/picomputation/PiComputationBib/Links/PiComputationBib_lnk_3.html
Over a hundred references to the computation of pi. |
One Billion Digits of Pi - http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/organics/papers/borwein/index.html
Ramanujan, modular equations, and approximations. |
Pi Calculations by the Buffon's method - http://www.worsleyschool.net/science/files/buffon/buffon3.html
Calculating the value of PI using toothpicks, to illustrate Count Buffon's problem, by the students of the Worsley School of Worsley, Alberta Canada. |