The Wallis product is an infinite product representation of the number pi. The lead retrieved for this entity truncated at an embedded formula image before showing the product's explicit form; the formula itself and its history are left as a gap for the depth wave. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Origin Yearpublished in 1656 by John Wallis Connections
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1. Wallis Product (Wikipedia)
Attributed To: John Wallis, Lead
It was published in 1656 by John Wallis.
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The Wallis product is the infinite product representation of π: π 2 = ∏ n = 1 ∞ 4 n 2 4 n 2 - 1 = ∏ n = 1 ∞
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