Viète's formula

English

Etymology

Named after François Viète (1540–1603), who published it in 1593 in his work Variorum de rebus mathematicis responsorum, liber VIII.

Proper noun

Viète's formula

  1. (mathematics) An infinite product of nested radicals representing the constant pi: specifically,
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