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About John Machin
John Machin was a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London. He is best known for developing a quickly converging series for pi in 1706 and using it to compute pi to 100 decimal places.
Everything about John Machin →- Occupation
- mathematician, astronomer
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- 1680
- Died
- June 9, 1751