“…In the simplest case when the vertices are independent and uniformly distributed on the circle, it is known that the semiperimeter S n and area A n of such random inscribed polygons, and the semiperimeter (or area) S ′ n of the random circumscribing polygons all converge to π w.p.1 as n → ∞ and their distributions are also asymptotically Gaussian [4,24]. Furthermore, by using extrapolation techniques [12,15] originating exactly from the famous Archimedean approximations of π based on regular polygons [3,13,19], it has been shown [22,23,25] that simple weighted averages such as 4 3 S n − 1 3 A n , 2 3 S n + 1 3 S ′ n and 16 15 S n − 1 5 A n + 2 15 S ′ n , etc., provide much more accurate approximations of π, and at the same time also satisfy similar central limit theorems as n → ∞. We note that extrapolation methods are useful in many important applications such as numerical evaluation of integrals, numerical solution of differential equations, and polynomial interpolations, etc.…”