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Math trick? Angst's Theorem??
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Dec 4, 2012 8:33 AM
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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:
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>> Try this on a calculator/spreadsheet:
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>> 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??
>
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>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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