Chris Gallant, CFA, is a senior manager of interest rate risk for ATB Financial with 10 years of experience in the financial markets. Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, ...

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 ...

A new formula for $\pi$ is derived. It is a direct consequence of Gauss' arithmetic-geometric mean, the traditional method for calculating elliptic integrals, and of ...

The simple definition of a mean is that of a numeric quantity which represents the center of a collection of numbers. Here the trick lies in defining the exact type of numeric collection, as beyond ...