Visible Lattice Points and Approximations to Pi
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A lattice point is visible from the origin if there is no other lattice point on the segment , which happens if and only if . The proportion of such lattice points is .
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Contributed by: Chingis Matayev (August 2015)
(Illinois Mathematics Summer REU Program 2015)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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Published: August 4 2015