Fabrice Bellard, born in 1972 in Grenoble, France, is a French computer programmer who also made a lasting contribution to the arithmetic of computing pi. In 1997 he discovered a faster formula for calculating single digits of pi in hexadecimal representation, now known as Bellard's formula, a variant of the Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe formula. On 31 December 2009 he claimed the world record for calculating pi, reaching nearly 2.7 trillion places in 90 days on a single desktop PC. He studied at the École Polytechnique and then specialised at Télécom Paris, and he is best known as the author of FFmpeg, QEMU, the Tiny C Compiler and QuickJS. In 2012 he co-founded the telecommunications company Amarisoft, and his entries won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest three times.
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is a French computer programmer known for writing FFmpeg, QEMU, and the Tiny C Compiler
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Bellard was born in 1972 in Grenoble, France
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at age 17, he created the executable compressor LZEXE
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Bellard's formula was discovered by Fabrice Bellard in 1997.
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