Ramanujan’s formula for ∏

In 1910, über-famous mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan identified a family of rapidly convergent infinite series for \pi:

    \[\frac{1}{\pi}=\sum_{k=0}^{\infty}s(k)\frac{Ak+B}{C^k}\]

where A, B, C and s(k) had certain constraints. The most popular member was

    \[\frac{1}{\pi}=\frac{2\sqrt{2}}{99^2}\sum_{k=0}^{\infty}\frac{(4k)!}{k!^4}\frac{26390k+1103}{396^{4k}}\]

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