I HAVE read Mr. Dodwell's remarks with interest. It will be noticed that I did not say that it was my friend Mr. Siemens that made the statement, but merely that it was said at the meeting. My ...

The square root of 2 has been calculated to 1,000,000 decimals on a large-scale digital computer and the result has been verified. The calculation was based on a specially developed algorithm for ...

Abstract: With continued reductions in feature size, additional functionality may be added to future microprocessors to boost the performance of important application domains. Due to growth in ...

IN NATURE of June 9, a correspondent, A. R., gives a method of James Thomson's for obtaining a series of convergents to a square root in the form of vulgar fractions.