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Further Examples: N

Here is a numerical approximation to the square root of .

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Here is a numerical approximation to to decimal places.

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Here is an expression composed of radicals that happens to be zero.

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It is not possible to show that zz is exactly zero by using approximate arithmetic.

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This shows that zz is equivalent to zero.

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