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arxiv: 0909.4913 · v3 · pith:OHJNZNBUnew · submitted 2009-09-27 · 🧮 math.HO

Irrationality From The Book

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We generalize Tennenbaum's geometric proof of the irrationality of sqrt(2) to sqrt(n) for n = 3, 5, 6 and 10. Modified version published in Mathematics Magazine \textbf{85} (2012), no. 2, 110--114.

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