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Gauss' Secret Way to Calculate π Faster [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qiDDhIYx48
1•peter_d_sherman•1h ago

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peter_d_sherman•1h ago
IMHO: Of all of the videos showing Pi's relationship with the Arithmetic-Geometric Mean (AGM), this is the best one.

Related:

Gauss–Legendre algorithm:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%E2%80%93Legendre_algorit...

Arithmetic–Geometric Mean (AGM)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic%E2%80%93geometric_m...

Chudnovsky algorithm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chudnovsky_algorithm

Landen's transformation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landen%27s_transformation

Binary splitting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_splitting

Show HN: Agent Citizen – Your AI agents are sitting around doing nothing

https://agent-citizen.vercel.app
1•daltonlcarr•1m ago•0 comments

Bosses say AI boosts productivity – workers say they're drowning in 'workslop'

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/14/ai-productivity-workplace-errors
1•pseudolus•4m ago•0 comments

Researchers discover record-setting heat-conducting material

https://www.anl.gov/article/researchers-discover-recordsetting-heatconducting-material
1•gmays•6m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Any services like NotebookLM that can convert text into videos?

1•haebom•8m ago•0 comments

Police officer uses Flock database to track mistress

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2•hentrep•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Lumon, browser agents as interactive sprites

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1•lesprgm•13m ago•0 comments

The race to understand the mysterious world of Africa's fungi

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1•a_w•14m ago•0 comments

The Great Software Meltdown

https://www.danmartell.com/the-great-software-meltdown/
1•wfme•15m ago•0 comments

Thomas Riedel Acquires Arri

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1•coolandsmartrr•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Playra 2026 link

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1•COdefinder•18m ago•0 comments

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https://claw.armoriq.ai/
1•vaibhavb007•20m ago•0 comments

Zperiod: Interactive Periodic Table with 118 elements and 3D atom models

https://zperiod.app/
1•itherseed•20m ago•0 comments

Bunk beds for economy passengers take off on Air New Zealand's new planes

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2•1659447091•22m ago•1 comments

Intro to Synthesis

https://signalfunctionset.com/projects/intro-to-synthesis/
1•stuart78•25m ago•0 comments

Aethon: A reference-based instantiation primitive for stateful AI agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12129
1•swanandr•25m ago•0 comments

Ask HN:Multi-microservices e2e tests solution

1•tonyxia•28m ago•0 comments

X.org Security Advisory: multiple security issues X.Org X server and Xwayland

https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2026-April/059446.html
1•voxadam•29m ago•0 comments

The Origin of AI's 'Reasoning' Abilities

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1•a_w•30m ago•0 comments

Traffic fatalities in US increased 15% on same days big albums were released

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2•bookofjoe•36m ago•1 comments

Iran's nuke confession blows reasons for America's war wide open

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2•Bender•45m ago•4 comments

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1•leourbina•46m ago•0 comments

An open source template for building cloud agents

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Open Agents by Vercel

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1•thunderbong•56m ago•0 comments

The Accursèd Alphabetical Clock

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4•ohjeez•1h ago•1 comments

Not Even Noise-Cancelling Headphones Can Block This Bicycle Bell

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1•ohjeez•1h ago•1 comments

Ask HN: What's with the Wargames-like UX lately?

3•beatthatflight•1h ago•3 comments