ten decimals are sufficient to give the circumference of the earth to the fraction of an inch, and thirty decimals would give the circumference of the whole visible universe to a quantity imperceptible with the most powerful microscope. Elements of Geometry - Page 235by Simon Newcomb - 1881 - 399 pagesFull view - About this book
| Euclid, John Casey - Euclid's Elements - 1885 - 340 pages
...3-141,592,653,589,793,238,462,643,383,279,502,884. The result is here carried far beyond all the requirements of Mathematics. Ten decimals are sufficient to give...quantity imperceptible with the most powerful microscope. CONCLUSION. In the foregoing Treatise we have given the elementary Geometry of the Point, the Line,... | |
| Euclides - 1885 - 340 pages
...3-141,592,653,589,793,238,462,643,383,279,502,884. The result is here carried far beyond all the requirements of Mathematics. Ten decimals are sufficient to give...quantity imperceptible with the most powerful microscope. CONCLUSION. In the foregoing Treatise we have given the elementary Geometry of the Point, the Line,... | |
| Edward Albert Bowser - Geometry - 1890 - 418 pages
...The first 20 figures of their result are as follows : 3.14159265358979323846. (437) This result is far beyond all the wants of mathematics. Ten decimals...with the most powerful microscope.* EXERCISES. 1. The area of the regular inscribed hexagon is equal to twice the area of the inscribed equilateral triangle.... | |
| John Macnie - Geometry - 1895 - 386 pages
...decimals. The first fifteen, more than sufficient for any useful purpose, are ir = 3.141592653589793. Ten decimals are sufficient to give the circumference...quantity imperceptible with the most powerful microscope. DIVISION OF CIRCUMFERENCE. PROPOSITION XVII. PROBLEM. 414. The diameter being given, to find a line... | |
| Science - 1899 - 676 pages
...calculation to over seven hundred places, which is far beyond the requirements of mathematics. Ten places are sufficient to give the circumference of the earth to the fraction of an inch, and thirty places would give the circumference of the visible universe to a quantity imperceptible with a microscope.... | |
| Jacob William Albert Young - Mathematics - 1911 - 427 pages
...superiority of the modern over the ancient methods. Practically, as the late Professor Newcomb remarked, "" ten decimals are sufficient to give the circumference...quantity imperceptible with the most powerful microscope/ 7 The results of these extended computations revealed nothing concerning the real nature of TT, nothing... | |
| Jacob William Albert Young - Mathematics - 1911 - 434 pages
...modern over the ancient methods. Practically, as the late Professor Newcomb remarked, " ten decimals arc sufficient to give the circumference of the earth...imperceptible with the most powerful microscope." The results of these extended computations revealed nothing concerning the real nature of 7i, nothing... | |
| Jacob William Albert Young - Mathematics - 1911 - 432 pages
...modern over the ancient methods. Practically, as the late Professor Newcomb remarked, " ten decimals arc sufficient to give the circumference of the earth...imperceptible with the most powerful microscope." The results of these extended computations revealed nothing concerning the real nature of ?r, nothing... | |
| David Eugene Smith - Geometry - 1911 - 370 pages
...usually a satisfactory approximation. Indeed, the late Professor Newcomb stated that " ten decimal places are sufficient to give the circumference of the earth to the fraction of an inch, and thirty decimal places would give the circumference of the whole visible universe to a quantity imperceptible... | |
| Augustus De Morgan - 1915 - 424 pages
...Newcomb made the matter plain even to the non-mathematical mind, when he said that "ten decimal places are sufficient to give the circumference of the earth to the fraction of an inch, and thirty decimal places would give the circumference of the whole visible universe to a quantity imperceptible... | |
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