Odd: colleague mentioned Shanks transformation, I said "that's probs local hero William Shanks!". It isn't, but this one also set a π record

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Daniel Shanks was the first to compute π to 100k decimal places: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Sh…, knocking William Shanks' 527 into a cocked hat

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