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During his lifetime, Ramanujan provided many formulae relating binomial sums to special values of the Gamma function. Based on numerical computations, Van Hamme recently conjectured p-adic analogues to such formulae. Using a combination of ordinary and Gaussian hypergeometric series, we prove one of these conjectures.
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Received: 11 April 2008
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McCarthy, D., Osburn, R. A p-adic analogue of a formula of Ramanujan. Arch. Math. 91, 492–504 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00013-008-2828-0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00013-008-2828-0