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The Square Root of Two to One Million Digits
- Editore:
Life is a Story Problem LLC
- Collana:
- Math Books for Children
- EAN:
9781632703651
- ISBN:
1632703653
- Pagine:
- 256
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
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Descrizione The Square Root of Two to One Million Digits
A conundrum faced ancient mathematicians. Which number to use for the square root of 2? Ancient Babylonians used the fraction 305470/216000. This was accurate to about six decimal places. Ancient Indians used the fraction 577/408. This fraction is accurate to five decimal places. Today, mathematicians understand that the square root of 2 is irrational, its digits go on forever without repeating. It is calculated using an infinite series. This book lists the first million digits of the square root of 2.
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