Recent content by Twixtfanatic

The link you provide is for Earthfiles subscribers only. Inasmuch as this is currently (11 Nov. 2014) the only thread on Physics Forums pertaining to animal mutilations which has not yet been locked down, I hope it would not be inappropriate for me to comment about these phenomena in general...

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...