Simon Plouffe
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Simon Plouffe is a Quebec mathematician born on June 11 1956 in St-Jovite. He discovered the formula for the BBP algorithm (the Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe formula) which permits the computation of the n-th binary digit of pi, in 1995. Plouffe is also the co-author of the Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, made into the web site (On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences) dedicated to integer sequences later in 1995.
Plouffe discovered an algorithm for the computation of Pi in any bases in 1996. Plouffe's Inverter is a web site that contains over 200 million mathematical constants.
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External link
- Home page of Simon Plouffe (http://www.lacim.uqam.ca/~plouffe/)(in French and English)
- Biography (http://www.peripheria.net/bios/plouffe/) (in French)
- On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/)de:Simon Plouffe
