The square root of 2 has been calculated to 1,000,000 decimals on a large-scale digital computer and the result has been verified. The calculation was based on a specially developed algorithm for ...

While DNA-based computing may not be taking over silicon quite so soon, there is progress in the works. In a paper published by Small, researchers from the University of Rochester demonstrate a ...

IN NATURE of June 9, a correspondent, A. R., gives a method of James Thomson's for obtaining a series of convergents to a square root in the form of vulgar fractions.

The ability to round a number to a number of decimal places or to a number of significant figures is essential if answers are to be written to the correct degree of accuracy asked for in a question.

A new DNA computer calculates square roots of perfect squares up to 900. Like quantum computers, DNA computers are an exciting frontier of post-silicon computing. Where previous examples were up to 4 ...

I HAVE read Mr. Dodwell's remarks with interest. It will be noticed that I did not say that it was my friend Mr. Siemens that made the statement, but merely that it was said at the meeting. My ...