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" ten decimals are sufficient to give the circumference of the earth to the fraction of an inch, and thirty decimals would give the circumference of the whole visible universe to a quantity imperceptible with the most powerful microscope. "
Elements of Geometry - Página 235
por Simon Newcomb - 1881 - 399 páginas
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The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid: And Propositions I-XXI of ...

Euclid, John Casey - 1885 - 340 páginas
...3-141,592,653,589,793,238,462,643,383,279,502,884. The result is here carried far beyond all the requirements of Mathematics. Ten decimals are sufficient to give...quantity imperceptible with the most powerful microscope. CONCLUSION. In the foregoing Treatise we have given the elementary Geometry of the Point, the Line,...
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The first six books of the Elements of Euclid, and propositions i.-xxi. of ...

Euclides - 1885 - 340 páginas
...3-141,592,653,589,793,238,462,643,383,279,502,884. The result is here carried far beyond all the requirements of Mathematics. Ten decimals are sufficient to give...quantity imperceptible with the most powerful microscope. CONCLUSION. In the foregoing Treatise we have given the elementary Geometry of the Point, the Line,...
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The Elements of Plane and Solid Geometry ...

Edward Albert Bowser - 1890 - 418 páginas
...The first 20 figures of their result are as follows : 3.14159265358979323846. (437) This result is far beyond all the wants of mathematics. Ten decimals...with the most powerful microscope.* EXERCISES. 1. The area of the regular inscribed hexagon is equal to twice the area of the inscribed equilateral triangle....
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Elements of Geometry: Plane and Solid

John Macnie - 1895 - 386 páginas
...decimals. The first fifteen, more than sufficient for any useful purpose, are ir = 3.141592653589793. Ten decimals are sufficient to give the circumference...quantity imperceptible with the most powerful microscope. DIVISION OF CIRCUMFERENCE. PROPOSITION XVII. PROBLEM. 414. The diameter being given, to find a line...
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Science and Industry: 1898-99, Volumen3

1899 - 676 páginas
...calculation to over seven hundred places, which is far beyond the requirements of mathematics. Ten places are sufficient to give the circumference of the earth to the fraction of an inch, and thirty places would give the circumference of the visible universe to a quantity imperceptible with a microscope....
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Monographs on Topics of Modern Mathematics: Relevant to the Elementary Field

Jacob William Albert Young - 1911 - 427 páginas
...superiority of the modern over the ancient methods. Practically, as the late Professor Newcomb remarked, "" ten decimals are sufficient to give the circumference...quantity imperceptible with the most powerful microscope/ 7 The results of these extended computations revealed nothing concerning the real nature of TT, nothing...
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Monographs on Topics of Modern Mathematics, Relevant to the Elementary Field

Jacob William Albert Young - 1911 - 434 páginas
...modern over the ancient methods. Practically, as the late Professor Newcomb remarked, " ten decimals arc sufficient to give the circumference of the earth...imperceptible with the most powerful microscope." The results of these extended computations revealed nothing concerning the real nature of 7i, nothing...
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Monographs on Topics of Modern Mathematics, Relevant to the Elementary Field

Jacob William Albert Young - 1911 - 432 páginas
...modern over the ancient methods. Practically, as the late Professor Newcomb remarked, " ten decimals arc sufficient to give the circumference of the earth...imperceptible with the most powerful microscope." The results of these extended computations revealed nothing concerning the real nature of ?r, nothing...
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The Teaching of Geometry

David Eugene Smith - 1911 - 370 páginas
...usually a satisfactory approximation. Indeed, the late Professor Newcomb stated that " ten decimal places are sufficient to give the circumference of the earth to the fraction of an inch, and thirty decimal places would give the circumference of the whole visible universe to a quantity imperceptible...
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A Budget of Paradoxes, Volumen1

Augustus De Morgan - 1915 - 424 páginas
...Newcomb made the matter plain even to the non-mathematical mind, when he said that "ten decimal places are sufficient to give the circumference of the earth to the fraction of an inch, and thirty decimal places would give the circumference of the whole visible universe to a quantity imperceptible...
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