The Arithmetic-Geometric Mean and Fast Computation of Elementary Functions
- 1 July 1984
- journal article
- Published by Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in SIAM Review
- Vol. 26 (3) , 351-366
- https://doi.org/10.1137/1026073
Abstract
We produce a self contained account of the relationship between the Gaussian arithmetic-geometric mean iteration and the fast computation of elementary functions. A particularly pleasant algorithm for $\pi $ is one of the by-products.
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