36 (number) 36 (number) 36 (thirty-six) is the natural number following 35 and preceding 37. 36 is both the square of six and a triangular number, making it a square triangular number. It is the smallest square triangular number other than one, and it is also the only triangular number other than one whose square root is also a triangular number. It is also a circular number- a square number that ends with the same integer by itself (6×6=36). It is the smallest number "n" with exactly eight solutions to the equation φ("x") = "n". Being the smallest number with exactly nine
Square root of 2 and this third by its own fourth less the thirty-fourth part of that fourth." That is, This approximation is the seventh in a sequence of increasingly accurate approximations based on the sequence of Pell numbers, which can be derived from the continued fraction expansion of . Despite having a smaller denominator, it is only slightly less accurate than the Babylonian approximation. Pythagoreans discovered that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side, or in modern language, that the square root of two is irrational. Little is known with certainty about the time or circumstances of this discovery, but