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A375743

Decimal expansion of 30547/21600.

1, 4, 1, 4, 2, 1, 2, 9, 6, 2, 9, 6, 2, 9, 6, 2, 9, 6, 2, 9, 6, 2, 9, 6, 2, 9, 6, 2, 9, 6, 2, 9, 6, 2, 9, 6, 2, 9, 6, 2, 9, 6, 2, 9, 6, 2, 9, 6, 2, 9, 6, 2, 9, 6, 2, 9, 6, 2, 9, 6, 2, 9, 6, 2, 9, 6, 2, 9, 6, 2, 9, 6, 2, 9, 6, 2, 9, 6, 2, 9, 6, 2, 9, 6, 2, 9, 6, 2, 9, 6, 2, 9, 6, 2, 9, 6, 2, 9, 6, 2

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OFFSET

1,2

COMMENTS

Babylonian approximation of sqrt(2) accurate to fifth decimal digit.

Wells erroneously gives the value: 1.4142155... .

Periodic of period 3.

REFERENCES

John H. Conway and Richard K. Guy, The Book of Numbers, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1996. See p. 182.

David Wells, The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers. Penguin Books, NY, 1986, Revised edition 1987. See pp. 34-35.

LINKS

Table of n, a(n) for n=1..100.