Origin of Irrational Numbers and Their Approximations
In this article a sincere effort has been made to address the origin of the incommensurability/irrationality of numbers. It is folklore that the starting point was several unsuccessful geometric attempts to compute the exact values of <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2021-03-01
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Series: | Computation |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2079-3197/9/3/29 |