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Simon Nickerson
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Is there a real number lookup algorithm or service?

Is there a way of taking a number known to limited precision (e.g. 1.644934) and finding out an "interesting" real number (e.g. $\pi^2/6$) that's close to it?

I'm thinking of something like Sloane's Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, only for real numbers.

The intended use would be: write a program to calculate an approximation to $\sum_{i=0}^\infty 1/n^2$, look up the answer ("looks close to $\pi^2/6$") and then use the likely answer to help find a proof that the sum really is $\pi^2/6$.

Does such a thing exist?

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