William Shanks (25 January 1812 – June 1882) was an English amateur mathematician. He is famous for his calculation of π to 707 places in 1873, which was...
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William Shankly OBE (2 September 1913 – 29 September 1981) was a Scottish football player and manager who is best known for his time as manager of Liverpool...
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volume 1, page 90. William Shanks, Contributions to Mathematics, ... (London, England: G. Bell, 1853), page 89. William Shanks (1871) "On the numerical...
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up shank in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Shanks may refer to: Alison Shanks (born 1982), New Zealand professional racing cyclist Bill Shankly, British...
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major film role, plays the titular Malcolm Shanks. It was the last film directed by producer-director William Castle. In a film that explicitly describes...
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mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. In 1853, British mathematician William Shanks calculated π to 607 digits, but made a mistake in the 528th digit, rendering...
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"William Shanks (1812–1882) – Biography". University of St Andrews. July 2007. Retrieved 22 January 2022. Ferguson 1946a, doi:10.2307/3608485 Shanks,...
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decimal representations of reciprocals of primes. Contemporaneously, William Shanks (1812–1882) calculated numerous reciprocals of primes and their repeating...
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Ludwig Oettinger 1867 49 William Shanks 1871 99 James W.L. Glaisher 1871 101 William Shanks 1877 262 J. C. Adams 1952 328 John William Wrench Jr. 1961 1050...
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Seaman Bognor, Sussex 23 William Shanks Able Seaman Dundee, Scotland 29 William Sims * Able Seaman Gedney, Lincoln. 24 William Sinclair Able Seaman Sallaway...
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