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Encyclopedia > Fabrice Bellard

Fabrice Bellard is a computer programmer who is best known as the founder of FFmpeg and project leader for Qemu. In computing, a programmer is someone who does computer programming and develops computer software. ... FFmpeg is a set of open source computer programs that can record, convert and stream digital audio and video. ... QEMU is free software written by Fabrice Bellard that implements a fast processor emulator, allowing a user to run one operating system within another. ...


He also developed quite a number of other programs, ranging from 3d graphics to a compact C Compiler, TinyCC (http://www.tinycc.org). 3-D or 3D abbreviates three dimensional and is often related to a stereoscopic display that exploits binocular vision. ...


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 (http://www.polytechnique.fr/), in 1996 he specialized at Télécom Paris (http://www.enst.fr/). View of Grenoble, 2002, with the snowy peaks of the Dauphiné Alps Location within France Grenoble ( Occitan: Grasanòbol) is a city and commune in south-east France, situated at the foot of the Alps, at the confluence of the Drac into the Isère River. ...


In 1997, Bellard discovered the fastest formula to calculate single digits of pi in binary representation, which is a variant of the Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe formula. The minuscule, or lower-case, pi The mathematical constant π represents the ratio of a circles circumference to its diameter and is commonly used in mathematics, physics, and engineering. ... The binary or base-two numeral system is a system for representing numbers in which a radix of two is used; that is, each digit in a binary numeral may have either of two different values. ... In mathematics, the Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe formula (BBP formula) originally referred to the π summation formula discovered in 1995 by Simon Plouffe. ...


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Fabrice Bellard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (145 words)
Fabrice Bellard is a computer programmer who is best known as the founder of FFmpeg and project leader for QEMU.
Bellard was born in 1972 in Grenoble, France.
In 1997, Bellard discovered the fastest formula to calculate single digits of pi in binary representation, which is a variant of the Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe formula [1].
Qemu - DSL Wiki (766 words)
QEMU is free software written by Fabrice Bellard that implements a fast central processing unitprocessor emulator, allowing a user to run one operating system within another one.
Fabrice Bellard also wrote a closed source, currently free-of-charge, Linux kernel module (with preliminary ports to FreeBSD and Windows) named kqemu or QEMU Accelerator, which speeds up i386 emulation on i386 platforms to a level where the loss of speed is negligible even compared to native execution.
Fabrice Bellard has stated his willingness to open-source the kqemu QEMU Accelerator module in case a company steps up to sponsor it.
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