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  2. Babylonian mathematics - Wikipedia

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    The diagonal displays an approximation of the square root of 2 in four sexagesimal figures, 1 24 51 10, which is good to about six decimal digits. 1 + 24/60 + 51/60 2 + 10/60 3 = 1.41421296... The tablet also gives an example where one side of the square is 30, and the resulting diagonal is 42 25 35 or 42.4263888...

  3. Parasitic number - Wikipedia

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    Pick a one digit integer k such that k ≥ n, and take the period of the repeating decimal k/(10n−1). This will be () where m is the length of the period; i.e. the multiplicative order of 10 modulo (10n − 1). For another example, if n = 2, then 10n − 1 = 19 and the repeating decimal for 1/19 is

  4. Equation solving - Wikipedia

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    Instantiating a symbolic solution with specific numbers gives a numerical solution; for example, a = 0 gives (x, y) = (1, 0) (that is, x = 1, y = 0), and a = 1 gives (x, y) = (2, 1). The distinction between known variables and unknown variables is generally made in the statement of the problem, by phrases such as "an equation in x and y ", or ...

  5. List of mathematical constants - Wikipedia

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    A mathematical constant is a key number whose value is fixed by an unambiguous definition, often referred to by a symbol (e.g., an alphabet letter), or by mathematicians' names to facilitate using it across multiple mathematical problems. [1]

  6. List of unsolved problems in mathematics - Wikipedia

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    Millennium Prize Problems: 7: 6 [6] Clay Mathematics Institute: 2000 Simon problems: 15 <12 [7] [8] Barry Simon: 2000 Unsolved Problems on Mathematics for the 21st Century [9] 22-Jair Minoro Abe, Shotaro Tanaka: 2001 DARPA's math challenges [10] [11] 23-DARPA: 2007 Erdős's problems [12] >934: 617: Paul Erdős: Over six decades of Erdős ...

  7. Repeating decimal - Wikipedia

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    For example, in duodecimal, ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠ = 0.6, ⁠ 1 / 3 ⁠ = 0.4, ⁠ 1 / 4 ⁠ = 0.3 and ⁠ 1 / 6 ⁠ = 0.2 all terminate; ⁠ 1 / 5 ⁠ = 0. 2497 repeats with period length 4, in contrast with the equivalent decimal expansion of 0.2; ⁠ 1 / 7 ⁠ = 0. 186A35 has period 6 in duodecimal, just as it does in decimal.

  8. List of undecidable problems - Wikipedia

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    The problem of determining if a given set of Wang tiles can tile the plane. The problem of determining the Kolmogorov complexity of a string. Hilbert's tenth problem: the problem of deciding whether a Diophantine equation (multivariable polynomial equation) has a solution in integers.

  9. Mental calculation - Wikipedia

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    Similarly add 7 + 5 = 12, then add the carried 1 to get 13. Place 3 to the result and carry the 1. result: 349; Add the carried 1 to the highest valued digit in the multiplier, 7 + 1 = 8, and copy to the result to finish. Final product of 759 × 11: 8349; Further examples: −54 × −11 = 5 5+4(9) 4 = 594