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:<math>\pi/2 = 1 + \cfrac{1}{1 + \cfrac{1}{1/2 + \cfrac{1}{1/3+ \ddots}}}</math>
 
This was published in American MathmaticalMathematical Monthly, December 2008 by Dr. Tom Picket, an associate Professor in the Physics Faculty of The University of Southern Indiana.--[[User:Nigel Galloway|Nigel Galloway]] 12:49, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
 
== Arithmetics?? ==
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Is the strange symbol after infix and line 3 an error with the upload, or do I need a special font?--[[User:Nigel Galloway|Nigel Galloway]] 12:57, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
:It's supposed to be the composition operator <math>\circ</math>, which I copied from [[First-class functions#Perl 6]]. It should be a utf8 grapheme. You can replace it with a simple "o".--[[User:Grondilu|Grondilu]] 13:13, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
 
: A good unicode font will have it. I believe it's part of the set of symbols that were originally in the Symbol font, or maybe one of the *dings fonts. Unicode's full of interesting stuff! (Pity that support for it is still distinctly patchy.) –[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 15:15, 3 January 2013 (UTC)