A challenging test for convergence accelerators: summation of a series with a special sign pattern.
Convenient for immediate computer implementation equivalents of Green’s functions are obtained for boundary-contact value problems posed for two-dimensional Laplace and Klein-Gordon equations on some regions filled in with piecewise homogeneous isotropic conductive materials. Dirichlet, Neumann and Robin conditions are allowed on the outer boundary of a simply-connected region, while conditions of ideal contact are assumed on interface lines. The objective in this study is to widen the range of...
We show how the idea behind a formula for π discovered by the Indian mathematician and astronomer Nilakantha (1445-1545) can be developed into a general series acceleration technique which, when applied to the Gregory-Leibniz series, gives the formula with convergence as , in much the same way as the Euler transformation gives with convergence as . Similar transformations lead to other accelerated series for π, including three “BBP-like” formulas, all of which are collected in the Appendix....