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He also developed quite a number of other programs, ranging from 3d graphics to a compact C Compiler, TinyCC.
Bellard was born in 1972 in Grenoble, France. He went to school in Joffre (Montpellier), where he already created a widely known program, the executable compressor LZEXE . After studying at l'École Polytechnique, in 1996 he specialized at Télécom Paris.
In 1995, Bellard discovered the fastest formula to calculate single digits of pi in binary representation, which is a variant of the PSLQ algorithm from David H. Bailey.