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Does anyone remember what happened to the experimental search for polynomial identities for $\pi$?

So a while back I was on the internet and had encountered a website containing an experimental search for identities for $\pi$. My memory was that the page belonged to either Jonathan Sondow or ...
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Curious sequences associated to continuous fractions

Given a strictly positive initial rational number $x_0$ in $\mathbb Q_>$ we define a sequence $x_0,x_1,\ldots$ recursively by setting $x_{n+1}=x_n+1/S(x_n)$ for $S(x)=a_0+a_1+\ldots+a_k$ where $[...
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Dynamics of a curious bijection of $\mathbb N$

The two sequences A48680 and A48679 of the OEIS define two mutually inverse bijections on the set of all strictly positive natural numbers given (for the comfort of the reader) as follows: Given an ...
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Expansion of inverse logarithmic integral in terms of lambert w

Cipolla and Césaro both gave expansions of $\operatorname{li}^{-1}$ in tems of nested $\log$ functions. I think it can be written in terms of the Lambert-W function in the form: $\operatorname{li}^{-...
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