n = 2 ∏ ∞ cos 2 n π
The infinite product above has a closed form. Evaluate this closed form.
Give your answer to 3 decimal places.
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Genius answer!
did exactly the same!!
That formula is actually Viète's formula for pi. A nice proof of the Wallis product for pi can be found here https://brilliant.org/problems/wallis-product-proof/?ref_id=1493253
n = 2 ∏ x cos ( 2 n π ) = 2 x − 1 sin 2 x π 1 We can show this by induction. The base case of x = 2 is straightforward. For the iterative step, we can use the double angle identity for sin(x). n = 2 ∏ x + 1 cos ( 2 n π ) = cos 2 x + 1 π n = 2 ∏ x cos ( 2 n π ) = cos ( 2 x + 1 π ) 2 x − 1 sin 2 x π 1 = 2 x sin 2 x + 1 π 1 This completes the induction. Taking the limit as x goes to infinity of the product that we just proved gives us n = 2 ∏ ∞ cos ( 2 n π ) = π 2
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f ( x ) = n = 2 ∏ x cos ( 2 n π )
f ( x ) = 2 x sin ( 2 x + 1 π ) sin ( 2 π ) = sin ( 2 x + 1 π ) 2 − x
x → ∞ lim f ( x ) = π 2 ≈ 0 . 6 3 6
This is a famous formula represented as,
π 2 = 2 1 2 2 2 + 1 … known as Walli's formula if I am not wrong.