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Arctan

  Similarly, the arctan function can be easily computed using:

\begin{displaymath}
\arctan(x) = \sum_{i=0}^\infty \frac{(-1)^{n} \!\cdot\!x^{2n+1}}{2n+1}\end{displaymath}

The convergence of this sequence is extremely slow as |x| approaches one. This has particular relevance when we compute $\pi$.



Martin Escardo
5/11/2000