pi2cfrac {contFracR}

Function to Calculate Pi In Continued Fraction Form

Description

This function generates the continued fraction coefficients for pi, with three different algorithms to choose from.

Usage

pi2cfrac(nterms, method = c('brouncker','stern','coleman'),...)

Arguments

nterms

The number of terms (basically depth of denominators) to generate.

method

The method to use, entered as a string. The choice can be abbreviated so long as it's unambiguous. See the Details section for discussion of the methods and their discoverers.

...

Reserved for future use.

Details

The three methods are named for their discoverers: Brouncker in 1655, Stern in 1833, and Coleman & Pickett in 2008. There are others which can be found in various papers; these may be added in a future release.

Value

A list containing: The numerators and denominators of the continued fraction in nums and denoms , as bigz integers, nterms and method echoed back for reference

Author(s)

Carl Witthoft, [e-mail]

References

http://scihi.org/william-brouncker-approximation-pi/ https://divisbyzero.com/2008/12/09/a-new-continued-fraction-for-pi/ https://mathworld.wolfram.com/PiContinuedFraction.html

See Also

cfrac2num

Examples

 pi2cfrac(nterms = 100, method='stern')
 pi2cfrac(nterms = 100, method = 'coleman')