Forget the potatoes, have some pie!

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Sasha has recently stopped eating potatoes and switched to eating pie, particularly enjoying apple pie (much to Jean's delight). When Levi went off on one of his rants about a topic no one cares about, he started talking about the Riemann zeta function, where ζ ( k ) = n = 1 1 n k \zeta(k)=\sum_{n=1}^\infty\dfrac{1}{n^k} Her ears perk up when Levi says that ζ ( 2 ) = π 2 6 \zeta(2)=\frac{\pi^2}{6} and ζ ( 4 ) = π 4 90 . \zeta(4)=\frac{\pi^4}{90}. She wants more of this "zeta function" and its pie. So she tries to find something along the lines of k = 1 ζ ( k ) \sum_{k=1}^\infty\zeta(k) She quickly realizes this is irrational, but that it won't be if you remove the 1 k 1^k term from the expansion of ζ ( k ) . \zeta(k). In addition, values of k k for which the value of ζ ( k ) \zeta(k) has π \pi somewhere in them only occur when k k is even.

Sasha was wowed to see that k = 1 ( ζ ( 2 k ) 1 ) = T . \displaystyle\sum_{k=1}^\infty(\zeta(2k)-1)=T. What is 100 T ? \lfloor100T\rfloor?

Details and Assumptions \textbf{Details and Assumptions}

The first few terms of Sasha's series are ( π 2 6 1 ) + ( π 4 90 1 ) + ( π 6 945 1 ) + ( π 8 9450 1 ) + \left(\frac{\pi^2}{6}-1\right)+\left(\frac{\pi^4}{90}-1\right)+\left(\frac{\pi^6}{945}-1\right)+\left(\frac{\pi^8}{9450}-1\right)+\ldots


The answer is 75.

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