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Title: The Square Root of 5

Author: Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell

Release Date: July 3, 2008 [EBook #629]

Language: English

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The Square Root of 5

by

Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell

What follows are the first 1 million digits of the square root of 5. Actually,
slightly more than 1 million digits are given here. These digits were computed
by Robert Nemiroff (George Mason University and NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center) checked by Jerry Bonnell (University Space Research Association and
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center). They were computed during spare time on a
VAX alpha class machine over the course of a weekend. We do NOT guarantee the
accuracy of these digits. Although these digits have been checked once we
encourage others to check them as well.

We have computed at least 10 million digits of the square root of
two as well as several digits of the number e and the square roots of other
numbers. These are available on this mosaic server (URL:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/rjn.html). We welcome comments.

--Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell

The square root of 5 =

2.2360679774997896964091736687312762354406183596115257242708972454105209256378
04899414414408378782274969508176150773783504253267724447073863586360121533452708
86677817319187916581127664532263985658053576135041753378500342339241406444208643
25390972525926272288762995174024406816117759089094984923713907297288984820886415
42689894099131693577019748678884425089754132956183176921499977424801530434115035
95766833251249881517813940800056242085524354223555610630634282023409333198293395
97463522712013417496142026359047378855043896870611356600457571399565955669569175
64578221952500060539231234005009286764875529722056766253666074485853505262330678
49463342224231763727702663240768010444331582573350589309813622634319868647194698
99701808189524264459620345221411922329125981963258111041704958070481204034559949
4350685555185557251238864165501026243631257102444961878