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Whether any other Mathematician will appear, possessing sufficient leisure, patience, and facility of computation, to calculate the value of [pi] to a still greater extent, remains to be seen: all that the Author can say is, he takes leave of the subject for the present...
William Shanks
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William Shanks
Born:
January 25, 1812
Died:
June, 1882
(aged 70)
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William Shanks was a British amateur mathematician.
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