13th root 13th root of a 100-digit number. All world records for mentally extracting a 13th root have been for numbers with an integer root. 13th root Extracting the 13th root of a number is a famous category for the mental calculation world records. The challenge consists of being given a large number (possibly over 100 digits) and asked to return the number that, when taken to the 13th power, equals the given number. For example, the 13th root of 8,192 is 2 and the 13th root of 96,889,010,407 is 7. Extracting the 13th root has certain properties. One is that the
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,