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  2. 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.

  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. 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. Algebraic number - Wikipedia

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    The square root of 2 is an algebraic number equal to the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle with legs of length 1.. An algebraic number is a number that is a root of a non-zero polynomial in one variable with integer (or, equivalently, rational) coefficients.

  6. Irrationality measure - Wikipedia

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    Rational numbers have irrationality exponent 1, while (as a consequence of Dirichlet's approximation theorem) every irrational number has irrationality exponent at least 2. On the other hand, an application of Borel-Cantelli lemma shows that almost all numbers, including all algebraic irrational numbers , have an irrationality exponent exactly ...

  7. 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.

  8. List of mathematical constants - Wikipedia

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    Square root of 2, Pythagoras constant. [4] ... [36] 262 53741 26407 68743 ... Rational numbers have two continued fractions; the version in this list is the shorter ...

  9. Square root of 2 - Wikipedia

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    This application also invokes the integer root theorem, a stronger version of the rational root theorem for the case when () is a monic polynomial with integer coefficients; for such a polynomial, all roots are necessarily integers (which is not, as 2 is not a perfect square) or irrational. The rational root theorem (or integer root theorem ...