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The Bartle-Sherbert bounds 2.828 < pi < 3.185

Example

Let $γ = π / 2$ . Then $\sqrt{2} < γ < \sqrt{6 - 2 \sqrt{3}}, 2.828 < π < 3.185.$

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The first positive cosine zero $γ = π / 2$ .

[L1]

$\cos$ is strictly decreasing on $[0, 2]$ , with unique zero $γ$ (Pi as twice the smallest positive zero of cosine, Sine is positive and cosine is strictly decreasing on (0,2), with cos 2 at most -1/3).

[L2]

The cosine power series and alternating-series remainder bounds are those of Sine and cosine defined by their real power series and The alternating series test: if $(b_{k})$ is nonincreasing with $b_{k} \to 0$ then $\sum_{k} (- 1)^{k} b_{k}$ converges, the sum lies between any two consecutive partial sums, and the error after $n$ terms is at most $b_{n}$ .

[L3]

Nonnegative square roots exist and preserve comparisons after squaring (Square roots exist: a unique $\sqrt{a} \geq 0$ with $(\sqrt{a})^{2} = a$ ; the positives are ${x^{2} : x \neq 0}$ ).

Verification

technique · direct

1.1

At $x = \sqrt{2}$ , the first two cosine terms cancel and the alternating tail beginning with $x^{4} / 4!$ is positive, so $\cos (\sqrt{2}) > 0$ .

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1.2

Put $a = \sqrt{6 - 2 \sqrt{3}}$ . Then $1 - a^{2} / 2 + a^{4} / 24 = 0$ , and the remaining alternating cosine tail begins negative with decreasing absolute terms, so $\cos a < 0$ .

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2.1

Strict decrease and [L1] give $\sqrt{2} < γ < a$ .

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3.1

Since $(707 / 500)^{2} < 2$ , $2 \sqrt{2} > 707 / 250$ . Since $(433 / 250)^{2} < 3$ and $(637 / 400)^{2} > 6 - 2 (433 / 250)$ , one has $a < 637 / 400$ , hence $2 a < 637 / 200$ .

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4.1

Doubling the bounds of step 2.1 proves the displayed decimal bounds for $π$ .

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Sources

C. Schmeiser, Introduction to Analysis (standard reference, not scraped)
R. Bartle and D. Sherbert, Introduction to Real Analysis (standard reference, not scraped)
H. Zeisel, lim sin(x)/x and the definition of pi (standard reference, not scraped)