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And they had some
basic guys memorized like
So, if they needed a
decimal value for a guy like
they'd put in the
memorized 1.414 part and crunch it out by hand:
Not very accurate
either. My calculator says
So... What if
they needed to crunch this guy?
Well...
might be too big for the tables and, even though they
were geeks, I'm sure they couldn't have memorized ALL
the radicals.
So, what did they do?
They rewrote the
radical so that the smallest number possible was inside
the radical.
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