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The quest for PI

Overview of attention for article published in The Mathematical Intelligencer, December 1997
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#41 of 732)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)

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Title
The quest for PI
Published in
The Mathematical Intelligencer, December 1997
DOI 10.1007/bf03024340
Authors

David H. bailey, Simon M. plouffe, Peter B. borwein, Jonathan M. borwein

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 3 4%
Canada 2 3%
United Kingdom 2 3%
France 1 1%
China 1 1%
Japan 1 1%
Unknown 66 87%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 16 21%
Professor 11 14%
Professor > Associate Professor 10 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 11%
Student > Bachelor 7 9%
Other 21 28%
Unknown 3 4%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 11 14%
Physics and Astronomy 9 12%
Computer Science 9 12%
Mathematics 7 9%
Engineering 6 8%
Other 24 32%
Unknown 10 13%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 February 2024.
All research outputs
#2,003,979
of 24,980,180 outputs
Outputs from The Mathematical Intelligencer
#41
of 732 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,899
of 97,219 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Mathematical Intelligencer
#1
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,980,180 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 91st percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 732 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 97,219 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its contemporaries.
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