Hi Russell,

>I'm not sure that C-CoRN really has a proof of Leibnitz's series for
>pi.
>The problem is the C-CoRN has two defintions of pi.
>
>"pi" is defined by Leibnitz's series.
>"Pi" is defined by a different sequence.
>
>However, these two constants are never shown to be equal.  "Pi" is used
>in
>the rest of the development, while "pi" is never touched again (as far
>as
>I know).
>
>Proving that Leibnitz's series converges and defining the limit to have
>the name "pi" is probably not in the spirit of the task.

I see.  Okay, so I'll take Coq away from number 26 then.
For now.  (And until someone tells me to do otherwise :-))

Freek
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