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 To find chats for a given day, for example July 19, 2023, search for datecode 20230719 (2023, month 07, day 19).
+====20231220====
+===Potpourri===
+Videos on Feynman and Computing Pi
+<WRAP prewrap>
+<code>
+:31:54 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
+	Syncthing.
+:32:01 From tedpk to Everyone:
+	Adam Adamandy Kochanski’s approximations of ´ π:
+	reconstruction of the algorithm ∗
+	Henryk Fuks´
+	Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
+	Brock University
+	St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1, Canada
+	Toronto, Ontario M5T 3J1, Canada
+	Email: hfuks@brocku.ca
+	Abstract
+	In his 1685 paper “Observationes cyclometricae” published in Acta Eruditorum, Adam
+	Adamandy Kochanski presented an approximate ruler-and-compass construction for rectifi- ´
+	cation of the circle. It is not generally known that the first part of this paper included an
+	interesting sequence of rational approximations of π. Kochanski gave only a partial explana- ´
+	tion of the algorithm used to produce these approximations, while promising to publish details
+	at a later time, which has never happened. We reconstruct the complete algorithm and discuss
+	some of its properties. We also argue that Kochanski was very close to discovery of continued ´
+	fractions and convergents of π.
+:37:26 From Barry Kort to Everyone:
+	Note:  Adam is NOT Ted’s older brother. ;)
+</code>
+</WRAP>
+[[lexingtoncomputergroup|return]]
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