Using Pythagorean Triangles to Approximate Angles

DOI10.2307/2322760MaRDI QIDQ3801632zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors W. S. Anglin

Publication date 1988

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2322760

zbMATH Keywords

Phythagorean trianglequadratic diophantine equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear Diophantine equations (11D04) Homogeneous approximation to one number (11J04)

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