And the codicil provides a wonderful segue into series acceleration, and your mysterious irregular convergence of the pi = 4 arctan 1 series. Rich ________________________________________ From: math-fun-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [math-fun-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of rwg@sdf.lonestar.org [rwg@sdf.lonestar.org] Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 11:38 PM To: math-fun Subject: [math-fun] Luchshe pizza v'rukye ... I added a codicil to http://www.tweedledum.com/rwg/pizza.htm partially rescuing the Kapteyn (Bessel) series approach. Unrelated: A kid showed me a math homework with a dire warning to show all work or else. Two of the problems were to distribute a monomial across a binomial. I couldn't see any work to show, except maybe "2 - 1 = 1" type exponent simplifications. So I suggested he go ahead and do it in his head, and attach a functional PET scan of his brain. --rwg CHEMOSORPTIONS PROCESSION MOTH ROCHON PRISM PROCHRONISM _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/math-fun