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Daniel Charles Shanks (January 17, 1917 – September 6, 1996) was an American mathematician who worked primarily in numerical analysis and number theory. He was the first person to compute π to 100,000 decimal places.
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| Daniel Shanks | Alma mater | University of Chicago | 1.00 | infobox |
| Daniel Shanks | Alma mater | University of Maryland, College Park | 1.00 | infobox |
| Daniel Shanks | Born | (1917-01-17)January 17, 1917 Chicago, Illinois | 1.00 | infobox |
| Daniel Shanks | Died | September 6, 1996(1996-09-06) (aged 79) Maryland | 1.00 | infobox |
| Daniel Shanks | Fields | Mathematics | 1.00 | infobox |
| Daniel Shanks | Known for | Computing π | 1.00 | infobox |
| Daniel Shanks | Known for | Integer factorization | 1.00 | infobox |
| Daniel Shanks | Known for | Baby-step giant-step | 1.00 | infobox |
| Daniel Shanks | Known for | Tonelli–Shanks algorithm | 1.00 | infobox |
| Daniel Shanks | related to External links | Mathematics Genealogy Project | 0.60 | section |
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