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Fabrice Bellard

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Re: Fabrice Bellard

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amazing how young this guy is despite having done so much

In 1997, he discovered a new, faster formula to calculate single digits of pi in hexadecimal representation, known as Bellard's formula. It is a variant of the Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula.

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Re: Fabrice Bellard

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Actually use his Tiny C Compiler, which I was surprised to learn still works under Windows 98. (At least the 32bit version.)