John Machin
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John Machin
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John Machin was a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London. He is best known for developing a quickly converging series for pi in 1706 and using it to compute pi to 100 decimal places.
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English mathematician (1686–1751)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Machin
date created:
2003-07-22T01:53:02Z
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2024-08-31T18:36:40Z
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