page_title: John Machin
hierarchical_section_title: John Machin
caption_attribution_description: English: Rationale: artist died &gt;70yrs ago Source: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Machin.html
context_page_description: John Machin, a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, is best known for developing a quickly converging series for Pi in 1706 and using it to compute Pi to 100 decimal places.
context_section_description: John Machin (bapt. c. 1686 – June 9, 1751), a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, is best known for developing a quickly converging series for Pi in 1706 and using it to compute Pi to 100 decimal places.
caption: John Machin
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