Method
Gauss noticed that the sequences
as
have the same limit:
the arithmetic–geometric mean.
It is possible to use this fact to construct fast algorithms for calculating elementary transcendental functions and some classical constants, in particular, the constant π.
Read more about this topic: AGM Method
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