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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:53:26 -0500
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- From: "Michael H. Prager" <mprager@PONTUS.DNET>
- Subject: RE: help
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- From: PONTUS::MPRAGER "Michael H. Prager" 17-DEC-1992 12:47:26.61
- To: UMIGW::"EO7646@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu"
- CC: MPRAGER
- Subj: Square root of 2
-
- Dear Erik:
-
- Many analytical math packages will do arithmetic to arbitrary precision. Two
- I have used personally are REDUCE (on the mainframe) and DERIVE (which costs
- < $200 and runs on the PC). If you tell me how many digits you would like, I
- will generate them using DERIVE and send them to you by e-mail.
-
- ...Mike Prager
- *====================================================*
- * Michael H. Prager *
- * U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service *
- * Southeast Fisheries Science Center *
- * 75 Virginia Beach Drive *
- * Miami, Florida 33149 USA *
- * Telephone: 305-361-4218 *
- * Internet: mprager%pontus.span@umigw.miami.edu *
- *====================================================*
-
- P.S. The first 1,000 digits I get are:
-
- 1.4142135623730950488016887242096980785696718753769480731766797379
- 907324784621070388503875343276415727350138462309122970249248360558
- 507372126441214970999358314132226659275055927557999505011527820605
- 714701095599716059702745345968620147285174186408891986095523292304
- 843087143214508397626036279952514079896872533965463318088296406206
- 152583523950547457502877599617298355752203375318570113543746034084
- 988471603868999706990048150305440277903164542478230684929369186215
- 805784631115966687130130156185689872372352885092648612494977154218
- 334204285686060146824720771435854874155657069677653720226485447015
- 858801620758474922657226002085584466521458398893944370926591800311
- 388246468157082630100594858704003186480342194897278290641045072636
- 881313739855256117322040245091227700226941127573627280495738108967
- 504018369868368450725799364729060762996941380475654823728997180326
- 802474420629269124859052181004459842150591120249441341728531478105
- 803603371077309182869314710171111683916581726889419758716582152128
- 22951848847
-