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We compute a Monte Carlo approximation of {\pi} using importance sampling with shots coming out of a Mossberg 500 pump-action shotgun as the proposal distribution. An approximated value of 3.131 is obtained, corresponding to a 0.33% error…

Popular Physics · Physics 2014-04-10 Vincent Dumoulin , Félix Thouin

This paper studies a well-known $\pi$ machine illustrated by Fig.(1). It is shown that the $\pi$ machine can compute digits of $\pi$ if the ratio of block weights, $m_2/m_1$, satisfies certain conditions, and that dynamics of the $\pi$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-24 Jiang Liu

Strongly correlated quantum systems give rise to many exotic physical phenomena, including high-temperature superconductivity. Simulating these systems on quantum computers may avoid the prohibitively high computational cost incurred in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-19 Frank Arute , Kunal Arya , Ryan Babbush , Dave Bacon , Joseph C. Bardin , Rami Barends , Andreas Bengtsson , Sergio Boixo , Michael Broughton , Bob B. Buckley , David A. Buell , Brian Burkett , Nicholas Bushnell , Yu Chen , Zijun Chen , Yu-An Chen , Ben Chiaro , Roberto Collins , Stephen J. Cotton , William Courtney , Sean Demura , Alan Derk , Andrew Dunsworth , Daniel Eppens , Thomas Eckl , Catherine Erickson , Edward Farhi , Austin Fowler , Brooks Foxen , Craig Gidney , Marissa Giustina , Rob Graff , Jonathan A. Gross , Steve Habegger , Matthew P. Harrigan , Alan Ho , Sabrina Hong , Trent Huang , William Huggins , Lev B. Ioffe , Sergei V. Isakov , Evan Jeffrey , Zhang Jiang , Cody Jones , Dvir Kafri , Kostyantyn Kechedzhi , Julian Kelly , Seon Kim , Paul V. Klimov , Alexander N. Korotkov , Fedor Kostritsa , David Landhuis , Pavel Laptev , Mike Lindmark , Erik Lucero , Michael Marthaler , Orion Martin , John M. Martinis , Anika Marusczyk , Sam McArdle , Jarrod R. McClean , Trevor McCourt , Matt McEwen , Anthony Megrant , Carlos Mejuto-Zaera , Xiao Mi , Masoud Mohseni , Wojciech Mruczkiewicz , Josh Mutus , Ofer Naaman , Matthew Neeley , Charles Neill , Hartmut Neven , Michael Newman , Murphy Yuezhen Niu , Thomas E. O'Brien , Eric Ostby , Bálint Pató , Andre Petukhov , Harald Putterman , Chris Quintana , Jan-Michael Reiner , Pedram Roushan , Nicholas C. Rubin , Daniel Sank , Kevin J. Satzinger , Vadim Smelyanskiy , Doug Strain , Kevin J. Sung , Peter Schmitteckert , Marco Szalay , Norm M. Tubman , Amit Vainsencher , Theodore White , Nicolas Vogt , Z. Jamie Yao , Ping Yeh , Adam Zalcman , Sebastian Zanker

In this paper we present an effective method for computing certain real coefficients $\lambda_{n}$ which appear in a criterion for the Riemann hypothesis proved by Xian-Jin Li. With the use of this method a sequence of over three-thousand…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Krzysztof Maslanka

High-dimensional quantum systems offer a new playground for quantum information applications due to their remarkable advantages such as higher capacity and noise resistance. We propose potentially practical schemes for remotely preparing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Jun-Hai Zhao , Si-Qi Du , Wen-Qiang Liu , Dong-Hong Zhao , Hai-Rui Wei

The combinatorics of tilings of a hexagon of integer side-length $n$ by 120 degree - 60 degree diamonds of side-length 1 has a long history, both directly (as a problem of interest in thermodynamic models) and indirectly (through the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-23 Peter Taylor

We analyze the results of the test of $\pi/2$ qubit rotations on the public quantum computer provided by IBM. We measure a single qubit rotated by $\pi/2$ about a random axis, and we accumulate vast statistics of the results. The test…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-10 Tomasz Białecki , Tomasz Rybotycki , Jakub Tworzydło , Adam Bednorz

We introduce an effective algorithmic method for the computation of a lower bound for uniform expansion in one-dimensional dynamics. The approach employs interval arithmetic and thus provides a rigorous numerical result (computer-assisted…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Paweł Pilarczyk , Michał Palczewski , Stefano Luzzatto

We present a generic digit serial method (DSM) to compute the digits of a real number $V$ . Bounds on these digits, and on the errors in the associated estimates of $V$ formed from these digits, are derived. To illustrate our results, we…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Warren E. Ferguson , Jesse Bingham , Levent Erkök , John R. Harrison , Joe Leslie-Hurd

Completing Loo-Keng Hua's approach to the real number system pioneered in 1962, this paper defines arithmetical operations directly on infinite decimals without appealing to any ordering structure. Therefore, the widespread belief that…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Nicolas Fardin , Liangpan Li

This paper describes recent advances in the combinatorial method for computing $\pi(x)$, the number of primes $\leq x$. In particular, the memory usage has been reduced by a factor of $\log x$, and modifications for shared- and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-01 Douglas B. Staple

In this paper we give another proof of the Chudnovsky formula for calculating $\pi$ - a proof in detail with means of basic complex analysis. With the exception of the tenth chapter, the proof is self-contained, with proofs provided for all…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Lorenz Milla

Loop calculations involve the evaluation of divergent integrals. Usually [1] one computes them in a number of dimensions different than four where the integral is convergent and then one performs the analytical continuation and considers…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Francesco Caravaglios

Given two distributions $\mathcal{P}$ and $\mathcal{Q}$ over a high-dimensional domain $\{0,1\}^n$, and a parameter $\varepsilon$, the goal of distance estimation is to determine the statistical distance between $\mathcal{P}$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Gunjan Kumar , Kuldeep S. Meel , Yash Pote

We present an extension of known semidefinite and linear programming upper bounds for spherical codes. We apply the main result for the distance distribution of a spherical code and show that this method can work effectively In particular,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Oleg R. Musin

We study the characterization of several distance problems for linear differential-algebraic systems with dissipative Hamiltonian structure. Since all models are only approximations of reality and data are always inaccurate, it is an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-27 Christian Mehl , Volker Mehrmann , Michal Wojtylak

Numerical approximate computation can solve large and complex problems fast. It has the advantage of high efficiency. However it only gives approximate results, whereas we need exact results in many fields. There is a gap between…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Jingzhong Zhang , Yong Feng

A large-scale experiment was conducted to find formulas relating to the base $e^\pi$. The numbers in this base are $$x = \sum_{n=0}^\infty {a(n)\over e^{\pi n}}$$ where $a(n)$ is taken from the OEIS catalog. These experiments were inspired…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Simon Plouffe

We provide a simple method and relevant theoretical analysis for efficiently estimating higher-order lp distances. While the analysis mainly focuses on l4, our methodology extends naturally to p = 6,8,10..., (i.e., when p is even).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Ping Li , Michael W. Mahoney , Yiyuan She

In 1969, H. Davenport and W. M. Schmidt studied the problem of approximation to a real number \xi by algebraic integers of degree at most three. They did so, using geometry of numbers, by resorting to the dual problem of finding…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Damien Roy