Originally posted by @soothfastGood thing it wasn't glass!
Erdős had some considerable peculiarities. For instance there's the anecdote about him not figuring out the proper way to open a carton of orange juice, so he used a knife to stab a hole in its side.
Originally posted by @lemondropInteresting tidbit: sqrt(2):1.4 as 50:49.
the actor Terrence Howard appeared on the TV show, The View, and claimed that he had proof (his own) that the square root of 2 was a rational number
laughable?
he was very serious
The post that was quoted here has been removedhttp://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Chung.html
Incredible mathematician for sure! I went to Bell Labs many times back when it was real but never ran into her.
Understandable since my field was ion implanters, semiconductor hardware and Bell Labs had a small chip base there.
So Erdos lived with her and her husband and worked on a number of papers together.
Incredible CV!
Originally posted by @sonhouseI mean that rt2 is precisely 1/49 greater than 1.4. Draw a 10x10 square and a diamond in the middle that bisects the 4 squares. the diamond in the middle's area, perforce, must be 50 because it's comprised of exactly have of the 100 sq larges square.The diadonals that make up the inscribed square are each 5 * rt(2) based on the Pythagorean Theorem. Wheres if the diagonals were 7, the inscribed diamond would be 49.
What does that mean? 50/49 is 1.02 and change. What has that to do with 2^ 0.5?
I assume you meant the ration of 50 to 49.
1/49, like 1/7, is irrational, of course, but I thought it was an interesting way to characters rt(2) in terms we think of more often.
Originally posted by @sh76Not sure what you're aiming at here, but you can't precisely express Sqrt[2] as a rational number, only approximately.
I mean that rt2 is precisely 1/49 greater than 1.4. Draw a 10x10 square and a diamond in the middle that bisects the 4 squares. the diamond in the middle's area, perforce, must be 50 because it's comprised of exactly have of the 100 sq larges square.The diadonals that make up the inscribed square are each 5 * rt(2) based on the Pythagorean Theorem. Wheres if t ...[text shortened]... se, but I thought it was an interesting way to characters rt(2) in terms we think of more often.
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Originally posted by @kazetnagorraAnd one way to express it is "1.4(50/49)"
Not sure what you're aiming at here, but you can't precisely express Sqrt[2] as a rational number, only approximately.