square root of 2

Originally posted by @sh76
And one way to express it is "1.4(50/49)"

1.4 X 1.02, close enough, is 1.428 not that close to 1.414 and change. It's within 2% so maybe alright for government work....

Originally posted by @sh76
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.

God, if you exist, save our souls, if we have such things.

1.4*(50/49) = 2*7*5/49 = 10/7

The square of that is 100/49 and is not equal to 2.

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There was the case of Nina Simone, a genius on piano and songwriter and protest singer, was denied entrance to a top music school because she was black.

I hope if there is a hell, there is a special place in there for people who would deny genius the chance to grow because of skin color.

One of her songs was Mississippi GODDAM.

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Another: I wish I knew what it would feel to be free:

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I assumed that he was trolling.

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How would you expose such race-norming as it applies to today's world nearly 40 years later?

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That is just such an odd thing to do. V odd.

Did you see the statement that 'root 2 is irrational', and prove it, with no recourse to published proof? Why?

If I recall correctly, the standard 'proof by contradiction' is a tedious thing, making use of the rules of even numbers.

If D64 thought that all up by her/his self, bravo.

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Looks like your post is missing an ir.

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Nothing to be sorry about, even the smartest among us mis-types sometimes.