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Simon Plouffe

Canadian mathematician

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Updated 2026-07-01

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.

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