306/Historical Note

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Historical Note on 306

$306$ was the number selected more or less at random by R. William Gosper when he wished to test a new technique for calculating roots using continued fractions.

He calculated its $7$th root to $2800$ digits.

It starts:

$2 \cdotp 26518 \ldots$


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