https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2502.17533/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47368496urn:hackerpapers:mention:2502.17533:47368496Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:19:58 GMT<p>This is utterly fascinating. The core paper is here [1], but the SciAm article says: &quot;...around the 14th century, Indian mathematician Madhava of Sangamagrama provided the first exact formula, expressed as an infinite series—a sum of endlessly many terms that, if you could somehow add them all up, would yield pi exactly. The catch: his series converged agonizingly slowly, requiring hundreds of terms just to nail down a few decimal places. More than three hundred years later Leonhard Euler discovered another series that converged faster. And in the early 1900s, the mathematician Srinivasa…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2502.17533/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>math.HO