{ "id": "math/0110238", "version": "v3", "published": "2001-10-22T10:28:18.000Z", "updated": "2002-10-10T14:14:30.000Z", "title": "Some new formulas for $π$", "authors": [ "Gert Almkvist", "Christian Krattenthaler", "Joakim Petersson" ], "comment": "28 pages, LaTeX; some important references added", "journal": "Experiment. Math. 12 (2003), 441-456.", "categories": [ "math.NT", "math.CA" ], "abstract": "We show how to find series expansions for $\\pi$ of the form $\\pi=\\sum_{n=0}^\\infty {S(n)}\\big/{\\binom{mn}{pn}a^n}$, where S(n) is some polynomial in $n$ (depending on $m,p,a$). We prove that there exist such expansions for $m=8k$, $p=4k$, $a=(-4)^k$, for any $k$, and give explicit examples for such expansions for small values of $m$, $p$ and $a$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v3", "updated": "2002-10-10T14:14:30.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "40A25", "11B65", "11Y60", "65B10" ], "keywords": [ "series expansions", "explicit examples", "small values" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "LaTeX", "pages": 28, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2001math.....10238A" } } }