"Among his [John Wallis'] interesting discoveries was the relation \frac{4}{\pi} = \frac32\cdot\frac34\cdot\frac54\cdot\frac56\cdot\frac76\cdot\frac78\cdots one of the early values of π involving infinite products."
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David Eugene Smith, History of Mathematics (1923) Vol.1; Footnote: see his Opera Mathematica, I, 441
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