William Shanks (25 January 1812 – June 1882) was an English amateur mathematician. He is famous for his calculation of π to 707 places in 1873, which was...
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William Shankly OBE (2 September 1913 – 29 September 1981) was a Scottish football player and manager who is best known for his time as manager of Liverpool...
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major film role, plays the titular Malcolm Shanks. It was the last film directed by producer-director William Castle. In a film that explicitly describes...
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volume 1, page 90. William Shanks, Contributions to Mathematics, ... (London, England: G. Bell, 1853), page 89. William Shanks (1871) "On the numerical...
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up shank in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Shanks may refer to: Alison Shanks (born 1982), New Zealand professional racing cyclist Bill Shankly, British...
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mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. In 1853, British mathematician William Shanks calculated π to 607 digits, but made a mistake in the 528th digit, rendering...
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decimal representations of reciprocals of primes. Contemporaneously, William Shanks (1812–1882) calculated numerous reciprocals of primes and their repeating...
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"William Shanks (1812–1882) – Biography". University of St Andrews. July 2007. Retrieved 22 January 2022. Ferguson 1946a, doi:10.2307/3608485 Shanks,...
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Ludwig Oettinger 1867 49 William Shanks 1871 99 James W.L. Glaisher 1871 101 William Shanks 1877 262 J. C. Adams 1952 328 John William Wrench Jr. 1961 1050...
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Seaman Bognor, Sussex 23 William Shanks Able Seaman Dundee, Scotland 29 William Sims * Able Seaman Gedney, Lincoln. 24 William Sinclair Able Seaman Sallaway...
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2008, a record for the artist. William Somerville Shanks was born in Gourock in Renfrewshire in 1864 to Helen and John Shanks (1923-1913), a horse proprietor...
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(classics scholar) Robert Schneider (musician and record producer) William Shanks (landlord) Abraham Sharp (schoolmaster) Simon Stevin (merchants clerk)...
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is composed of black line figures overlaid on bright-colored shapes. William Shank, former chief conservator of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
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Ludolph van Ceulen François Viète Seki Takakazu Takebe Kenko William Jones John Machin William Shanks Srinivasa Ramanujan John Wrench Chudnovsky brothers Yasumasa...
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more) using various convergence acceleration techniques. For example, the Shanks transformation, Euler transform or Van Wijngaarden transformation, which...
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theory) Newman–Shanks–Williams prime Shanks transformation Shanks's square forms factorization Williams, H. C. (August 1997). "Daniel Shanks (1917–1996)"...
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and Atomic Energy Commission in Paris, by means of the program of Genuys Shanks, Daniel; Wrench, John W. J.r (1962). "Calculation of π to 100,000 decimals"...
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Trigger (1989) Binford (1962) Flannery (1967) Shanks and Tilley (1987) Shanks and Tilley (1988) Shanks (1991) Shanks (1993) Tilley (1993) Miller and Tilley1984...
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Ludolph van Ceulen François Viète Seki Takakazu Takebe Kenko William Jones John Machin William Shanks Srinivasa Ramanujan John Wrench Chudnovsky brothers Yasumasa...
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Amsterdam, Virginia, Thomas Shanks was the son of the former Hannah Morrison and her husband David Shanks. Thomas Shanks survived two wives. He married...
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Ludolph van Ceulen François Viète Seki Takakazu Takebe Kenko William Jones John Machin William Shanks Srinivasa Ramanujan John Wrench Chudnovsky brothers Yasumasa...
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Mayor Margaret Rutledge Delphi Harrington as Countess Valaira Rosnovsky William Shanks as Barek Nick Wyman as Grant Booth #1 John Cunningham as Grant Booth...
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Ludolph van Ceulen François Viète Seki Takakazu Takebe Kenko William Jones John Machin William Shanks Srinivasa Ramanujan John Wrench Chudnovsky brothers Yasumasa...
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Ludolph van Ceulen François Viète Seki Takakazu Takebe Kenko William Jones John Machin William Shanks Srinivasa Ramanujan John Wrench Chudnovsky brothers Yasumasa...
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Ludolph van Ceulen François Viète Seki Takakazu Takebe Kenko William Jones John Machin William Shanks Srinivasa Ramanujan John Wrench Chudnovsky brothers Yasumasa...
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(2001–2014). Shanks was born on October 25, 1946, in Soso, Mississippi. Shanks was the son of Fred David and Frances (McMillan) Shanks. Shanks graduated...
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3390/sym13010149. Studied together with the Perrin sequence in: Adams, William; Shanks, Daniel (1982). "Strong primality tests that are not sufficient". Math...
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Sons. pp. 62–63, 113–115. ISBN 978-0-470-52548-7. OCLC 839010064. Jagy, William C. (1995). "Squaring circles in the hyperbolic plane" (PDF). The Mathematical...
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Ludolph van Ceulen François Viète Seki Takakazu Takebe Kenko William Jones John Machin William Shanks Srinivasa Ramanujan John Wrench Chudnovsky brothers Yasumasa...
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Gerald L.; Klosinski, Leonard F.; Larson, Loren C., eds. (1985), The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition: Problems and Solutions: 1965–1984...
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