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On the rapid computation of various polylogarithmic constants (1997) [pdf]

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Using this algorithm, I set three records ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PiHex ), the last of which stood for 9 years and 10 months until a team at Yahoo surpassed it ( http://arxiv.org/abs/1008.3171 ).

This is so cool. But, here is a question: why?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVd-rYIqSy8

Because we can.