{"title":"Balancing the Square Root of Two","authors":"Tom Edgar","doi":"10.1080/07468342.2023.2201569","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Summary We give a physical proof, using moments of mass, that the square root of two is irrational.","PeriodicalId":38710,"journal":{"name":"College Mathematics Journal","volume":"54 1","pages":"176 - 178"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"College Mathematics Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07468342.2023.2201569","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Summary We give a physical proof, using moments of mass, that the square root of two is irrational.