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Pi's Irrationality Using Maclaurin Polynomials

Authors: Timothy W. Jones

After reviewing Maclaurin series and the Alternating Series Estimation Theorem, we show how these can be combined with some arithmetic and algebraic observations to prove that pi is irrational.

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