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Authors: Folkmar Bornemann, Dirk Laurie, Stan Wagon and Jörg Waldvogel
Title: The SIAM 100-Digit Challenge: A study in high-accuracy numerical computing
Additional book information: SIAM, Philadelphia, PA, 2004, xii+306 pp., ISBN 0-89871-561-X, US$57.00$, paperback

David Bailey, Peter Borwein, and Simon Plouffe, On the rapid computation of various polylogarithmic constants, Math. Comp. 66 (1997), no. 218, 903–913. MR 1415794, DOI 10.1090/S0025-5718-97-00856-9

Jonathan Borwein and David Bailey, Mathematics by experiment, A K Peters, Ltd., Natick, MA, 2004. Plausible reasoning in the 21st century. MR 2033012

Jonathan Borwein, David Bailey, and Roland Girgensohn, Experimentation in mathematics, A K Peters, Ltd., Natick, MA, 2004. Computational paths to discovery. MR 2051473

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``The SIAM 100-Digit Challenge'' (website), http://www.siam.org/books/ 100digitchallenge.

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Lloyd N. Trefethen, ``Maxims about Numerical Mathematics, Computers, Science, and Life'', SIAM News, vol. 31 (1998), no. 1, pg. 4.

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Lloyd N. Trefethen, ``The $100, 100-Digit Challenge'', SIAM News, vol. 35 (2002), no. 6, pp. 1-3. Also available at http://www.siam.org/siamnews/01-02/challenge.pdf.

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David H. Bailey, Peter B. Borwein and Simon Plouffe, ``On the Rapid Computation of Various Polylogarithmic Constants'', Mathematics of Computation, vol. 66, no. 218 (April 1997), pp. 903-913. MR 1415794 (98d:11165)

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Jonathan M. Borwein and David H. Bailey, Mathematics by Experiment: Plausible Reasoning in the 21st Century, A K Peters, Natick, MA, 2004. MR 2033012 (2005b:00012)

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Jonathan M. Borwein, David H. Bailey and Roland Girgensohn, Experimentation in Mathematics: Computational Paths to Discovery, A K Peters, Natick, MA, 2004. MR 2051473

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``The SIAM 100-Digit Challenge'' (website), http://www.siam.org/books/ 100digitchallenge.

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Lloyd N. Trefethen, ``Maxims about Numerical Mathematics, Computers, Science, and Life'', SIAM News, vol. 31 (1998), no. 1, pg. 4.

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Lloyd N. Trefethen, ``The $100, 100-Digit Challenge'', SIAM News, vol. 35 (2002), no. 6, pp. 1-3. Also available at http://www.siam.org/siamnews/01-02/challenge.pdf.