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  2. Square root of 2 - Wikipedia

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    The Square Root of Two to 5 million digits by Jerry Bonnell and Robert J. Nemiroff. May, 1994. Square root of 2 is irrational, a collection of proofs; Haran, Brady (27 Jan 2012). Root 2 (video). Numberphile. featuring Grime, James; Bowley, Roger. ⁠ ⁠ Search Engine 2 billion searchable digits of √ 2, π and e

  3. Irrational number - Wikipedia

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    The square root of 2 was likely the first number proved irrational. [27] The golden ratio is another famous quadratic irrational number. The square roots of all natural numbers that are not perfect squares are irrational and a proof may be found in quadratic irrationals.

  4. Quadratic irrational number - Wikipedia

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    The square root of 2 was the first such number to be proved irrational. Theodorus of Cyrene proved the irrationality of the square roots of non-square natural numbers up to 17, but stopped there, probably because the algebra he used could not be applied to the square root of numbers greater than 17. Euclid's Elements Book 10 is dedicated to ...

  5. List of mathematical constants - Wikipedia

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    Formula Year Set One: 1 1 ... Square root of 2, Pythagoras constant [4] 1.41421 ... is irrational. If true, this will prove the twin prime conjecture. ...

  6. Methods of computing square roots - Wikipedia

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    A method analogous to piece-wise linear approximation but using only arithmetic instead of algebraic equations, uses the multiplication tables in reverse: the square root of a number between 1 and 100 is between 1 and 10, so if we know 25 is a perfect square (5 × 5), and 36 is a perfect square (6 × 6), then the square root of a number greater than or equal to 25 but less than 36, begins with ...

  7. Algebraic number - Wikipedia

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    Quadratic irrational numbers, irrational solutions of a quadratic polynomial ax 2 + bx + c with integer coefficients a, b, and c, are algebraic numbers. If the quadratic polynomial is monic (a = 1), the roots are further qualified as quadratic integers. Gaussian integers, complex numbers a + bi for which both a and b are integers, are also ...

  8. Constructible number - Wikipedia

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    The square root of 2 is equal to the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle with legs of length 1 and is therefore a constructible number. In geometry and algebra, a real number is constructible if and only if, given a line segment of unit length, a line segment of length | | can be constructed with compass and straightedge in a finite number of steps.

  9. nth root - Wikipedia

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    A root of degree 2 is called a square root and a root of degree 3, a cube root. Roots of higher degree are referred by using ordinal numbers, as in fourth root, twentieth root, etc. The computation of an n th root is a root extraction. For example, 3 is a square root of 9, since 3 2 = 9, and −3 is also a square root of 9, since (−3) 2 = 9.