What is #sqrt65# in simplified radical form?
1 Answer
Jun 19, 2016
Explanation:
The prime factorisation of
#65 = 5 * 13#
Since this has no square factors
Bonus
#65 = 64+1 = 8^2+1#
is in the form
The square roots of such numbers have a simple form of continued fraction expansion:
#sqrt(n^2+1) = [n;bar(2n)] = n+1/(2n+1/(2n+1/(2n+1/(2n+1/(2n+1/(2n+...))))))#
So in our example:
#sqrt(65) = [8;bar(16)] = 8+1/(16+1/(16+1/(16+1/(16+1/(16+1/(16+...))))))#
You can get rational approximations of
For example:
#sqrt(65) ~~ [8;16] = 8+1/16 = 8.0625#
#sqrt(65) ~~ [8;16,16] = 8+1/(16+1/16) = 8+16/257 ~~ 8.0622568#
The actual value is more like:
#sqrt(65) ~~ 8.0622577483#