# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/simon-plouffe
# Generated: 2026-09-01T03:32:23.796Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/simon-plouffe"
name: "Simon Plouffe"
slug: "simon-plouffe"
description: "Simon Plouffe is a Canadian mathematician who discovered the Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula which permits the computation of the nth binary digit of π, in 1995. His other 2022 formula allows extracting the nth digit of π in decimal. He was born in Saint-Jovite, Quebec."
tagline: "Canadian mathematician"
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birthDate: "1956-06-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump