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Vieta-like products of nested radicals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

Thomas J. Osler
Thomas J. Osler*
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA, e-mail:Osler@rowan.edu
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The beautiful infinite product of radicals

due to Vieta [1] in 1592, is one of the oldest non-iterative analytical expressions for π, In a previous paper [2] the author proved the following two Vieta-like products:

for N even, and

for N odd. Here N is a positive integer, FN and LN are the Fibonacci and Lucas numbers, and is the golden section. (The Fibonacci numbers are F1 = 1, F2 = 1, with the recursion relation , while the Lucas numbers are L1 = 1, L2 = 3 with the same recursion relation )

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 94 , Issue 529 , March 2010 , pp. 62 - 66
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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 2010

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References

1. Berggren, L., Borwein, J. and Borwein, P., Pi, a source book, Springer, New York (1997) pp. 53–67.Google Scholar
2. Osler, T. J., Vieta-like products of nested radicals with Fibonacci and Lucas numbers, Fibonacci Quarterly 45 (2008) pp. 202–204.Google Scholar
3. Vorob'ev, N. N., Fibonacci numbers, Pergamon Press (1961) pp. 20–28. AMS Classification Numbers: 40A20, IIB39.Google Scholar