HAKMEM, AGM, and Pi

3 · John Cook · June 22, 2021, 8:06 p.m.
HAKMEM is a collection of tricks and trivia from the MIT AI lab written in 1972. I’ve mentioned HAKMEM here before. The image below came from HAKMEM item 123, explained here. I ran across HAKMEM item 143 while writing my previous two blog posts about the arithmetic-geometric mean (AGM). This entry, due to Gene Salamin, […] The post HAKMEM, AGM, and Pi first appeared on John D. Cook....