The Square Root of 2 by Stan Kerr This choice was made by popular demand for a second number, from the responses to our posting of Pi to a million places as one of the January, 1993 Project Gutenberg Etexts. This was suprising, in that we never expected the massive response we got. For you, who are interested, we will also do e, Pi to the e, e to the Pi, and perhaps a few more. Suggestions welcome. For those who are not interested, don't worry we don't have many of these in mind. This electronic text was prepared by Stan Kerr as below. He would like this computation confirmed. This was computed on a Convex C240 using Richard Brent's multiple precision arithmetic routines (MP), published as algorithm 524 in the March 1978 issue of Transactions on Mathematical Software. Using the MP routines, a base of 10000 was chosen, to make the final decimal conversion trivial. The time to compute sqrt(2) was 32293 seconds, and the time to compute sqrt(2)**2-2 as a check was 31031 seconds. The number is presented as an integer with 40 digits per line of text. Stan Kerr Computing and Communications Services Office University of Illinois / Urbana stankerr@uiuc.edu 1.414213562373095048801688724209698078 5696718753769480731766797379907324784621 0703885038753432764157273501384623091229 7024924836055850737212644121497099935831 4132226659275055927557999505011527820605 7147010955997160597027453459686201472851 7418640889198609552329230484308714321450 8397626036279952514079896872533965463318 0882964062061525835239505474575028775996 1729835575220337531857011354374603408498 8471603868999706990048150305440277903164 5424782306849293691862158057846311159666 8713013015618568987237235288509264861249 4977154218334204285686060146824720771435 8548741556570696776537202264854470158588 0162075847492265722600208558446652145839 8893944370926591800311388246468157082630 1005948587040031864803421948972782906410 4507263688131373985525611732204024509122 7700226941127573627280495738108967504018 3698683684507257993647290607629969413804 7565482372899718032680247442062926912485 9052181004459842150591120249441341728531 4781058036033710773091828693147101711116 8391658172688941975871658215212822951848 8472089694633862891562882765952635140542 2676532396946175112916024087155101351504 5538128756005263146801712740265396947024 0300517495318862925631385188163478001569 3691768818523786840522878376293892143006 5586956868596459515550164472450983689603 6887323114389415576651040883914292338113 2060524336294853170499157717562285497414 3899918802176243096520656421182731672625 7539594717255934637238632261482742622208 6711558395999265211762526989175409881593 4864008345708518147223181420407042650905 6532333398436457865796796519267292399875 3666172159825788602633636178274959942194 0377775368142621773879919455139723127406 6898329989895386728822856378697749662519 9665835257761989393228453447356947949629 5216889148549253890475582883452609652409 6542889394538646625744927556381964410316