• John William Wrench, Jr. (October 13, 1911 – February 27, 2009) was an American mathematician who worked primarily in numerical analysis. He was a pioneer...
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    A monkey wrench is a type of smooth-jawed adjustable wrench, a 19th century American refinement of 18th-century English coach wrenches. It was widely...
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  • torque wrench is a tool used to apply a specific torque to a fastener such as a nut, bolt, or lag screw. It is usually in the form of a socket wrench with...
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    and New Zealand), English wrench (Turkey) or adjustable wrench (US and Canada) is any of various styles of spanner (wrench) with a movable jaw, allowing...
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  • century again revolutionized the hunt for digits of π. Mathematicians John Wrench and Levi Smith reached 1,120 digits in 1949 using a desk calculator....
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  • Wrench is a surname, and may refer to: Benjamin Wrench (1778–1843), English actor Christopher Wrench (born 1958), Australian organist and lecturer Connor...
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    Naperian base," Mathematical Magazine, 1 (12) : 204–205. Daniel Shanks; John W Wrench (1962). "Calculation of Pi to 100,000 Decimals" (PDF). Mathematics of...
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    Commission in Paris, by means of the program of Genuys Shanks, Daniel; Wrench, John W. J.r (1962). "Calculation of π to 100,000 decimals". Mathematics of...
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    Viète Seki Takakazu Takebe Kenko William Jones John Machin William Shanks Srinivasa Ramanujan John Wrench Chudnovsky brothers Yasumasa Kanada History Chronology...
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  • John Mervyn Dallas Wrench CIE (15 September 1883 – 31 August 1961) was Chief Engineer of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway and later Chief Controller...
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