William Shanks (1812-1882) was an Englishman and amateur mathematician. He spent 17 years of his life calculating the digits of the mathematical constant π. In the days before computers this was a laborious pencil and paper calculation. As he made progress, and raced against others for how far he could take the calculation, he reported [...]
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