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    Formulas of the form (1+epsilon)-1

    I was fooling around with spreadsheet formulas, and created a series of rational approximations for the square root of 3: 7/4, 26/15, 97/56 etc. This is based on the continued fraction expansion for square roots. Each ratio N/D has the property that N^2 is one more than 3*(D^2)=K. I was curious...