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- From: wilson@web.ctron.com (David Wilson)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: sqrt sequences
- Message-ID: <4895@balrog.ctron.com>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 16:12:40 GMT
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- For those of you who disparage sequence completion puzzles, here
- are some sequence puzzles which pose themselves. The first few
- digits in decimal expansions of each of the following values
- suggests the start of an integer sequence. Can you give the
- general term for each sequence?
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- 1. 5-2*sqrt(6)
- 2. sqrt(51)/7
- 3. sqrt(2)/7
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- David W. Wilson (wilson@ctron.com)
-
- Disclaimer: "Truth is just truth...You can't have opinions about truth."
- - Peter Schikele, introduction to P.D.Q. Bach's oratorio "The Seasonings."
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