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cos(2pi/257) à la Gauss
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| Organization: | Wolfram Research, Inc. |
| Department: | Scientific Information Group |
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| Mathematica in Education and Research |
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Gauss's method for expressing cos(2pi/17) in nested square roots is implemented. The program can generate all cos(2pi/p) when p is a Fermat prime.
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| Gauss.nb (5 KB) - Mathematica Notebook |
Files specific to Mathematica 2.2 version:
| | Gauss.ma (5 KB) - Mathematica Notebook 2.2 or older |
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