A070197 Base-60 (or sexagesimal or Babylonian) expansion of sqrt(2).

1, 24, 51, 10, 7, 46, 6, 4, 44, 50, 28, 51, 20, 34, 26, 20, 4, 31, 2, 38, 30, 53, 27, 38, 34, 5, 46, 18, 24, 29, 40, 16, 7, 16, 8, 56, 52, 55, 33, 23, 4, 47, 56, 56, 45, 38, 49, 18, 57, 50, 33, 52, 37, 54, 34, 48, 24, 21, 7, 17, 14, 49, 19, 7, 29, 21, 53, 42, 42, 11, 57, 11, 11

Offset: 1

Author

Eric W. Weisstein, May 01 2002

Keywords

• nonn
• cons
• base

References

• John H. Conway and Richard K. Guy, The Book of Numbers, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1996. See p. 182.
• David Flannery, The Square Root of 2, A Dialogue Concerning A Number And A Sequence, Copernicus Books, NY, 2006, pp. 32-33.

Links

• G. C. Greubel, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000
• John Baez and Richard Elwes, Babylon and the Square Root of 2, useful comments by Greg Egan et al., Dec 02 2011
• Jason Kimberley, Index of expansions of sqrt(d) in base b
• Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Pythagoras's Constant
• Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Sexagesimal

Crossrefs

Cf. A002193.

Cf. A159991. - Reinhard Zumkeller, May 02 2009

Cf. A060707. - Jason Kimberley, Dec 05 2012

Programs

Mathematica

RealDigits[Sqrt[2], 60, 73][[1]]

Extensions

Entry revised by Robert G. Wilson v, Aug 21 2006

Offset corrected by R. J. Mathar, Feb 05 2009