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Simon Plouffe (born June 11, 1956) is a
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(in French) * * N. J. A. Sloane and S. Plouffe,
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Simon Plouffe (born June 11, 1956) is a mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems.
Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
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who discovered the Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula
The Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula (BBP formula) is a formula for . It was discovered in 1995 by Simon Plouffe and is named after the authors of the article in which it was published, David H. Bailey, Peter Borwein, and Plouffe. Before that, ...
(BBP algorithm) which permits the computation of the ''n''th binary
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digit of π, in 1995. His other 2022 formula allows extracting the ''n''th digit of in decimal. He was born in Saint-Jovite, Quebec.
He co-authored ''The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences'', made into the web site On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS) is an online database of integer sequences. It was created and maintained by Neil Sloane while researching at AT&T Labs. He transferred the intellectual property and hosting of the OEIS to the ...
dedicated to integer sequences later in 1995. In 1975, Plouffe broke the world record for memorizing digits of π by reciting 4096 digits, a record which stood until 1977.
See also
*Fabrice Bellard
Fabrice Bellard (; born 1972) is a French computer programmer known for writing FFmpeg, QEMU, and the Tiny C Compiler. He developed Bellard's formula for calculating single digits of pi. In 2012, Bellard co-founded Amarisoft, a telecommunication ...
, who discovered in 1997 a faster formula to compute pi.
*PiHex PiHex was a distributed computing project organized by Colin Percival to calculate specific bits of . 1,246 contributors used idle time slices on almost two thousand computers to make its calculations. The software used for the project made use of ...
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External links
* *Plouffe website
(in French) * * N. J. A. Sloane and S. Plouffe,
', Academic Press, San Diego, 1995, 587 pp. . 1956 births Living people Canadian mathematicians French Quebecers People from Laurentides {{Canada-academic-bio-stub