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  2. 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 ...

  3. Approximations of π - Wikipedia

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    y-cruncher can also be used to calculate other constants and holds world records for several of them. PiFast by Xavier Gourdon was the fastest program for Microsoft Windows in 2003. According to its author, it can compute one million digits in 3.5 seconds on a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4. [100] PiFast can also compute other irrational numbers like e and ...

  4. Irrational number - Wikipedia

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    The number √ 2 is irrational.. In mathematics, the irrational numbers (in-+ rational) are all the real numbers that are not rational numbers.That is, irrational numbers cannot be expressed as the ratio of two integers.

  5. A New Formula for Pi Is Here. And It’s Pushing Scientific ...

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    The digits of pi extend into infinity, and pi is itself an irrational number, meaning it can’t be truly represented by an integer fraction (the one we often learn in school, 22/7, is not very ...

  6. Pi - Wikipedia

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    π is an irrational number, meaning that it cannot be written as the ratio of two integers. Fractions such as ⁠ 22 / 7 ⁠ and ⁠ 355 / 113 ⁠ are commonly used to approximate π, but no common fraction (ratio of whole numbers) can be its exact value. [21]

  7. 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 ...

  8. Floating-point arithmetic - Wikipedia

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    For example, the number 2469/200 is a floating-point number in base ten with five digits: / = = ⏟ ⏟ ⏞ However, 7716/625 = 12.3456 is not a floating-point number in base ten with five digits—it needs six digits. The nearest floating-point number with only five digits is 12.346.

  9. Dirichlet's approximation theorem - Wikipedia

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    This shows that any irrational number has irrationality measure at least 2. The Thue–Siegel–Roth theorem says that, for algebraic irrational numbers, the exponent of 2 in the corollary to Dirichlet’s approximation theorem is the best we can do: such numbers cannot be approximated by any exponent greater than 2.