Re: an irritating mathmatical problem

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From: HASHIZUME Hiromichi
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 00:00

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In article <4tn8q8$6ra@gidora.seg.co.jp>, fakio@gidora.seg.co.jp (Akio Furukawa) writes:
 >>  My computer can only calculate to 1.059463094359.

 > the 12th root of 2 is equal to
 > 1.0594630574661637452851120479254493010871976
 > 924783669846904814732638118482360772132238739 73818504548

Strange...  My computation is (actually Mathematica did):

N[2^(1/12), 1000] =

1.059463094359295264561825294946341700779204317494185628559208431458761646063\
  255722383768376863945569007740764326382817366241737520827851039644723985114\
  271115432990470239714933804165425687642097632937989594712970994706480093899\
  117384768670552068940032678157513833032313199553909590145874845955006818065\
  217728023628104555713869553201754802640057179595879584537567829830020977379\
  250053687440339888193760632343525439900632883084612552948088872148233044140\
  741848931081985092499799866870357094979175843370298630237612625173981919008\
  919366931298054535197982705358773565786048226460447309096862437259627229368\
  252804486357070017113179993104983673208898864035569202671576641209105496257\
  514493981088649738185151744092025177988784831666892332928201939743642078982\
  338822600070557879010396469688704493770155599314937986615335225715237461405\
  143471590955063423996539201214435554626122975708821305169835935319569917044\
  759706843162452693530787201727875902267111432312910205110099843318515685627\
  8139001219137439999091018

 -- hiro hashizume @ nacsis

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From: has@rd.nacsis.ac.jp (HASHIZUME Hiromichi)
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Date: 1996/07/31
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