Template:Sequence of the Day for December 8

Intended for: December 8, 2012

Timetable

• First draft entered by Alonso del Arte on December 7, 2011 ✓
• Draft reviewed by Daniel Forgues on December 8, 2011 ✓
• Draft approved by Alonso del Arte on November 5, 2012 ✓

Yesterday's SOTD * Tomorrow's SOTD

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A010466: Decimal expansion of

2√  8

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2.8284271247461900976...

This is the second Lagrange number, used in the Hurwitz irrational number theorem to obtain very good rational approximations of irrational numbers other than multiples of the golden ratio.