Fabrice Bellard
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Fabrice Bellard is a computer programmer who is best known as the founder of FFmpeg and project leader for QEMU. He also developed quite a number of other programs, ranging from 3-D graphics to a compact C compiler, the Tiny C Compiler (aka tcc).
He was born in 1972 in Grenoble, France and went to school in Lycée Joffre (Montpellier), where he created a widely known program, the executable compressor LZEXE. After studying at l'École Polytechnique, in 1996 he specialized at Télécom Paris.
In 1997, he discovered the fastest formula to calculate single digits of pi in binary representation, known as Bellard's formula. It is a variant of the Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe formula.[1]
Gérard Lantau, one of the listed creators of FFmpeg, is his alter ego.
Fabrice Bellard's entries won the the International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) twice:[2]
- In the year 2000 edition in the category "Most specific output" for a program that implements the modular Fast Fourier Transform and innovatively uses it to compute the biggest known prime number.
- In the year 2001 edition in the category "Best abuse of the rules" for a tiny (only 3KB source code) compiler of a strict subset of the C language for i386 Linux. The program itself is written in this language subset.
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- ^ A new formula to compute the n'th binary digit of pi January 21, 1997
- ^ International Obfuscated C Code Contest years page
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