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Fabrice Bellard

French computer programmer (born 1972)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Fabrice Bellard is a French computer programmer known for writing FFmpeg, QEMU, and the Tiny C Compiler. He developed Bellard's formula for calculating single digits of pi. In 2012, Bellard co-founded Amarisoft, a telecommunications company, with Franck Spinelli.

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“Fabrice Bellard” enters the record as french computer programmer (born 1972). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Fabrice, Bellard and French can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Fabrice Bellard” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.