William Shanks British Mathematician
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| First Name |
William
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| Last Name |
Shanks
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| Birthday |
25th January, 1812
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| Birthplace |
Corsenside, city of Sunderland, County Durham, England
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| Died |
1st June, 1882
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| Place of Death |
Houghton-le-Spring, County Durham, England
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| Zodiac Sign |
Aquarius
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| Nationality |
British
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| Occupation |
Mathematician
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William Shanks (25 January 1812 – June 1882) was an English amateur mathematician. He is famous for his calculation of π to 707 decimal places in 1873, which was correct up to the first 527 places. The error was discovered in 1944 by D. F. Ferguson (using a mechanical desk calculator). Nevertheless, Shanks's approximation was the longest expansion of π until the advent of the digital electronic computer in the 1940s.
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