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Something wrong?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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Country
Canada
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
living
Dates
Born 1956 · age 70
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