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William Shanks

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Amateur calculator, school owner

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digital object identifier

Internet Archive

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

natural logarithm

University of St Andrews

multiplicative inverse

boarding school

Euler–Mascheroni constant

Macmillan Publishers

repeating decimal

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1812 births 1882 deaths 19th-century English mathematicians Amateur mathematicians People from Houghton-le-Spring Pi-related people

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Baudhayana sutras

Indiana pi bill

Houghton-le-Spring

proof that 22/7 exceeds π

Yasumasa Kanada

chronology of computation of π

proof that π is irrational

Takebe Katahiro

squaring the circle

Leibniz formula for π

Palais de la Découverte

approximations of π

Lindemann–Weierstrass theorem

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