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ABSTRACT

Many important constants, such as e and Apéry's constant ζ(3), can be approximated by a truncated hypergeometric series. The evaluation of such series to high precision has traditionally been done by binary splitting followed by fixed-point division. However, the numerator and the denominator computed by binary splitting usually contain a very large common factor. In this paper, we apply standard computer algebra techniques including modular computation and rational reconstruction to overcome the shortcomings of the binary splitting method. The space complexity of our algorithm is the same as a bound on the size of the reduced numerator and denominator of the series approximation. Moreover, if the predicted bound is small, the time complexity is better than the standard binary splitting approach. Our approach allows a series to be evaluated to a higher precision without additional memory. We show that when our algorithm is applied to compute ζ(3), the memory requirement is significantly reduced compared to the binary splitting approach.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  F. Theory of Computation
  F.2 ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS AND PROBLEM COMPLEXITY
      F.2.1 Numerical Algorithms and Problems
          Subjects: Computations on polynomials

Additional Classification:
  F. Theory of Computation
  F.2 ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS AND PROBLEM COMPLEXITY
      F.2.3 Tradeoffs among Complexity Measures

  G. Mathematics of Computing
  G.1 NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
      G.1.2 Approximation
          Subjects: Special function approximations

General Terms:
Algorithms, Performance