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Before we can define the alpha-function we need the following
classical theta functions:
The alpha-function can be defined as
As r tends to infinity we see that q tends to zero so that
we have
In [8, Theorem 3, p. 215,] Borwein, Borwein and Bailey are able
to express in terms of and various theta
functions. Utilizing p-th order modular equations for the theta
functions, they then are able to construct p-th order iterations
that converge to . In the next section we show how
to construct p-th order iterations in a different way. Instead
of a single alpha-function we construct an infinite family
of functions .
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