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From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Wed Jun 23 17:43:42 2004

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?
Received on Wed Jun 23 2004 - 17:43:42 BST