On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Tony Duell wrote:
How many even know the square root of 2 and 3?
2.236+ ;-)
No, that's the square root of 2+3. The square root of 2 AND 3 (assuming a
normal binary machine) is presumably somewhere close to 1.4142 :-)
sorry for the typo.
I intended to say:
How many even know the square roots of 2 and 3?
(square root of (2), square root of (3) )
But, even GIVEN the square rootS of 2 and of 3,
how many students could tell you the square root of 6?