| Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1819 - 574 pages
...contained five times in unity, and nine times in | . is the common measure of unity and the fraction |, and the relation these quantities have to each other...exactly, at the same time, both this root and unity. In order to denote, in general, that a root is to be extracted, whether it can be exactly obtained... | |
| Etienne Bézout - Mathematics - 1824 - 238 pages
...exactly determined, but approximations to it may be made continually, as will be seen hereafter. 132. The square root of a number, which is not a perfect square, is called a surd, irrational, or ineommensu* rable number. - 133. \Ve will now consider numbers, which... | |
| Adrien Marie Legendre - 1825 - 570 pages
...measure with unity, we say that these quantities are commensurable with unity, or simply that they arc commensurable ; and since their relations or ratios,...incommensurable or irrational, because, as it cannot he represented by any fraction, into whatever number of parts we suppose unily to bo divided, no one... | |
| Bézout - Arithmetic - 1825 - 258 pages
...we cannot exactly assign, but to which we can approach continually, as we shall see shortly. 1 32. The square root of a number which is not a perfect square, is called a surd, irrational, or incommensurable number, 133. Let us proceed to numbers which have more... | |
| Reginald Rabett - Bible - 1835 - 408 pages
...hypothesis. What analogy can there be between ' the Name of . a Man, and the Number of his Name,' and the Square Root of a Number which is not a perfect Square ? A greater perversion of Mathematical Knowledge, as connected with the Holy Scriptures. could not... | |
| Algebra - 1838 - 372 pages
...root of 994009. 4. To find the square root of 85678973. 0. To find the square root of 67812675. 118. The square root of a number which is not a perfect square, is called incommensurable or irrational, because its exact root cannot be found in terms of the numerical... | |
| William Scott - Algebra - 1844 - 568 pages
...and Examples ..... 262 1 36 Tests for the Discovery of Square Numbers ... 264 138 Approximation to the Square Root of a Number which is not a perfect Square ----.. 265 139 Extraction of the Square Root of a Vulgar Fraction - - 267 140 Extraction of the Square... | |
| Francis Henney Smith - Arithmetic - 1845 - 300 pages
...will the square root of a number comprised of one or two figures contain ? Between what numbers will the square root of a number which is not a perfect square be found -' Between what numbers will the square root of 96 be found ? y.;-, . •/37T -/24? 221* Every... | |
| Francis Henney Smith - Arithmetic - 1845 - 710 pages
...will the square root of a number comprised of one or two figures contain ? Between what numbers will the square root of a number which is not a perfect square be found ? Between what numbers will the square root of 96 be found ? ,/Jjfj N/37? >/24? 221* Every... | |
| Robert Wallace - 1870 - 164 pages
...number; then (a+l)2 — a2=«2+2a-(1 — a2=2o+l=a+(a+l), which was to be proved., Next, to extract the square root of a number, which is not a perfect square, to a degree of approximation within a given fraction. cin. Let a=the number ; then a ntay be put under... | |
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