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Saturday, March 23, 2013
A Puzzle from Simon Plouffe
Here is a fun puzzle from Simon Plouffe: consider the decimal expansion of sqrt(51)/14. It starts
0.51010203061020 ...
That seems like a lot of 0's at the beginning! Is it just a coincidence, or is there something deeper behind it?
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