### A Pluto.jl notebook ###
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using Markdown
using InteractiveUtils

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md"""
# The Basel problem

_Leonard Euler_ proved in 1741 that the series

```math
\frac{1}{1} + \frac{1}{4} + \frac{1}{9} + \cdots
```

converges to

```math
\frac{\pi^2}{6}.
```
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n = 1:100000

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seq = n .^ -2

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sqrt(sum(seq) * 6.0)

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