8 Oct
2008
8 Oct
'08
12:01 p.m.
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 7:45 AM, James Buddenhagen <jbuddenh@gmail.com>wrote:
Most rational approximations are to irrationals. This one, coming from a Heron triangle, is to an integer. Click here: http://i35.tinypic.com/35cmnia.png for a less than 1k formatted version.
Couldn't any number of approximations of this form be obtained by simply taking rational approximations to square roots and then squaring both sides? In particular, this approximation follows after noting that (70226, 13515) solves the Pellian x^2-27y*2=1.
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