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by jack6e 2829 days ago
> "Not as clickbaity though...."

Not as accurate, either, given that the title of the paper is "Get Billions and Billions of Correct Digits of pi from a Wrong Formula," and it was published before "click-bait" was a thing.

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Click-bait has long existed as headlines and movie and novel titles.
Perhaps that means this paper invented click-bait.