William Rutherford was an English

English people

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 mathematician

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 famous for his calculation of 208 digits of the mathematical constant

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 π in 1841. Only the first 152 digits were later found to be correct. However, that still broke the world record of the time which was held by the Slovenia

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n mathematician Jurij Vega

Jurij Vega

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 since 1789 (126 first digits were correct) For the current world record, see Chronology of computation of π.
Rutherford used the following formula:

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