Definition:Pi/Historical Note/Modern Developments/Mistake

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Source Work

1986: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers:

The Dictionary
$3 \cdotp 14159 \, 26535 \, 89793 \, 23846 \, 26433 \, 83279 \, 50288 \, 41972 \ldots$


1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.):

The Dictionary
$3 \cdotp 14159 \, 26535 \, 89793 \, 23846 \, 26433 \, 83279 \, 50288 \, 41971 \ldots$


Mistake

... in $1983$ a Japanese team of Yoshiaki Tamura and Tasumasa Kanada produced $16,777,216$ ($= 2^{24}$) places.


Tasumasa Kanada should read Yasumasa Kanada.

Some Internet sources present the name as Takahashi Kanada, but this appears to be a conflation of Yasumasa Kanada and Daisuke Takahashi.


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