Square root of 3 billion digits. The fraction (…) for the square root of three can be used as an approximation. Despite having a denominator of only 56, it differs from the correct value by less than (approximately ). The rounded value of 1.732 is correct to within 0.01% of the actual value. Archimedes reported , accurate to (six decimal places) and (four decimal places), respectively. It can be expressed as the continued fraction , expanded on the right. It can also be expressed by generalized continued fractions such as which is evaluated at every second term. The following nested square expressions converge to
Square root of 2 Since it is a convergent of the continued fraction representation of the square root of two, any better rational approximation has a denominator not less than 169, since (≈ 1.4142012) is the next convergent with an error of approx. . The rational approximation of the square root of two, , derived from the fourth step in the Babylonian algorithm starting with , is too large by approx. : its square is … This is a table of recent records in calculating digits of A short proof of the irrationality of can be obtained from the rational root theorem, that is,