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Topic: Math trick? Angst's Theorem??
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Wally W.

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Re: Math trick? Angst's Theorem??
Posted: Dec 2, 2012 10:05 AM
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On Sun, 02 Dec 2012 07:49:17 -0500, pete wrote:

>Existential Angst wrote:
>>
>> Try this on a calculator/spreadsheet:
>>
>> Take sq rt of 10, to as many places as poss..
>> Then take recip. What do you see?
>> For the calculationally lazy:
>> 3.162277660168 --> .3162277660168... !!!!
>> Weird coincidence? Predictable??
>> Angst's Theorem??
>
>
>Take sq rt of N, to as many places as poss..

N = 3:

sqrt(N)= 1.7320508075689

>Then take recip.

1/N = 0.57735026918963

>What do you see?

Nothing immediately interesting.

When working in base-10, I see interesting things only when N is an
integral power of 10.

>For the calculationally lazy:
> (1 / sq rt of N) = (sq rt of N) / N !!!!
>Weird coincidence?

It depends.

>Predictable??

Is what predictable?

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