That and the relationship between continued fractions for square roots, and Pell's equation. On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 9:31 PM, Eugene Salamin via math-fun < math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
The guy needs to read about continued fractions, and how they optimally approximate.
-- Gene
From: Stuart Anderson <stuart.errol.anderson@gmail.com> To: "math-fun@mailman.xmission.com" <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, March 13, 2017 5:29 PM Subject: [math-fun] square root approximation?
Is this a known method? Not particularly accurate though
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