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  2. Straightedge and compass construction - Wikipedia

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    Doubling the cube is the construction, using only a straightedge and compass, of the edge of a cube that has twice the volume of a cube with a given edge. This is impossible because the cube root of 2, though algebraic, cannot be computed from integers by addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and taking square roots.

  3. Spherical coordinate system - Wikipedia

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    For example, one sphere that is described in Cartesian coordinates with the equation x 2 + y 2 + z 2 = c 2 can be described in spherical coordinates by the simple equation r = c. (In this system—shown here in the mathematics convention—the sphere is adapted as a unit sphere, where the radius is set to unity and then can generally be ignored ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. E8 lattice - Wikipedia

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    The E 8 lattice is a discrete subgroup of R 8 of full rank (i.e. it spans all of R 8).It can be given explicitly by the set of points Γ 8 ⊂ R 8 such that . all the coordinates are integers or all the coordinates are half-integers (a mixture of integers and half-integers is not allowed), and

  6. Sphere packing - Wikipedia

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    Sphere packing finds practical application in the stacking of cannonballs. In geometry, a sphere packing is an arrangement of non-overlapping spheres within a containing space. The spheres considered are usually all of identical size, and the space is usually three-dimensional Euclidean space.

  7. Spherical trigonometry - Wikipedia

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    The sphere's radius is taken as unity. For specific practical problems on a sphere of radius R the measured lengths of the sides must be divided by R before using the identities given below. Likewise, after a calculation on the unit sphere the sides a, b, and c must be multiplied by R.

  8. n-sphere - Wikipedia

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    The octahedral ⁠ ⁠-sphere is a square (without its interior). The octahedral ⁠ 2 {\displaystyle 2} ⁠ -sphere is a regular octahedron ; hence the name. The octahedral ⁠ n {\displaystyle n} ⁠ -sphere is the topological join of ⁠ n + 1 {\displaystyle n+1} ⁠ pairs of isolated points. [ 9 ]

  9. Square root - Wikipedia

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    The square root of a positive integer is the product of the roots of its prime factors, because the square root of a product is the product of the square roots of the factors. Since p 2 k = p k , {\textstyle {\sqrt {p^{2k}}}=p^{k},} only roots of those primes having an odd power in the factorization are necessary.