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Simon Plouffe

Simon Plouffe (born June 11, 1956) is a French Canadian mathematician who discovered the Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula (BBP algorithm) which permits the computation of the ''n''th binary digit of π, in 1995. His other 2022 formula allows extracting the ''n''th digit of in decimal. He was born in Saint-Jovite, Quebec.

He co-authored ''The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences'', made into the website On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences dedicated to integer sequences later in 1995. In 1975, Plouffe broke the world record for memorizing digits of π by reciting 4096 digits, a record which stood until 1977. Provided by Wikipedia