The square root of 2 has been calculated to 1,000,000 decimals on a large-scale digital computer and the result has been verified. The calculation was based on a specially developed algorithm for ...

Let us look at some interesting facts about squares and square roots. A square and its square root are the reverse of each other. But what happens to squares and square roots of negative numbers? When ...

A new DNA computer calculates square roots of perfect squares up to 900. Like quantum computers, DNA computers are an exciting frontier of post-silicon computing. Where previous examples were up to 4 ...

The ancient Greeks wanted to believe that the universe could be described in its entirety using only whole numbers and the ratios between them — fractions, or what we now call rational numbers. But ...

I HAVE read Mr. Dodwell's remarks with interest. It will be noticed that I did not say that it was my friend Mr. Siemens that made the statement, but merely that it was said at the meeting. My ...