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A comment on Get Billions of Correct Digits of Pi from a Wrong Formula (1999) [pdf].

Re:Get Billions of Correct Digits of Pi from a Wrong Formula... by dajohnson89 on Friday September 21, 2018 @02:03PM (#18041502)
Wouldn't a better title be, "An accurate approximation of pi"? Not as clickbaity though....
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Re:Get Billions of Correct Digits of Pi from a Wrong Formula... by xamuel on Friday September 21, 2018 @02:44PM (#18041767)
It's not clickbait. The article is genuinely interesting, and the title is quite relevant to why it's interesting.
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Re:Get Billions of Correct Digits of Pi from a Wrong Formula... by jack6e on Friday September 21, 2018 @02:13PM (#18041558)
> "Not as clickbaity though...."

Not as accurate, either, given that the title of the paper is "Get Billions and Billions of Correct Digits of pi from a Wrong Formula," and it was published before "click-bait" was a thing.

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Re:Get Billions of Correct Digits of Pi from a Wrong Formula... by djmips on Saturday September 22, 2018 @04:36PM (#18047858)
Click-bait has long existed as headlines and movie and novel titles.
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Re:Get Billions of Correct Digits of Pi from a Wrong Formula... by izzydata on Friday September 21, 2018 @02:22PM (#18041618)
Perhaps that means this paper invented click-bait.
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