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What is the irrational number that William shanks created?

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∙ 12y ago
Updated: 10/17/2024

William Shanks is not known to have created any number - rational or irrational. He did calculate pi to a greater degree of accuracy then previously but the number pi had been discovered around 4 thousand years before Shanks. Therefore it can hardly be said that he discovered it.

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