Re: Square roots : mail received



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mathedman <mathedman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 22:59:44 EDT, in sci.math you wrote:

>Where is it possible to find the square roots of natural numbers with a number of decimals as great as possible ?

nowhere --- there are infinitely many ogf them --there's no place to
store oinfinitely many anythings.

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Infinite = possible ?
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