#sqrt2

…√2…π………………

Text?:

21 (twenty-one)

seed: 31 (16 nominations)

class: semiprime

definition: 1+2+3+4+5+6

the square root of two

seed: 34 (15 nominations)

class: irrational number

definition: the length of a the longer side of the triangle formed by diagonally cutting a unit square in half

 "God made the integers; all else is the work of man."

Like Pythagoras and his followers' idea of defining a moment as measurable lengths and callable number, say 22/7. But then they discovered that some number are ultimately measurable but not absolutely definite (or in a correct sense, "rational"), like the aspect ratio of our modern paper size, sqrt2. They even produced a geometric proof of sqrt2's irrationality at the time. Yet we still have absolutely no idea what sqrt2 really means. Sqrt2 isn't a number, it's a characteristic of a number such that when it times itself will result in two.