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Hero and Theon connected by matrices
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2016
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In a course on Greek Mathematics for our Classical Sixth some years ago, I noticed a connection between Theon’s and Hero’s sequences of rational approximations to √2 (the “side-and-diameter” numbers). A footnote in Heath [1] refers to a proof published in German in 1886, but I recently came across a generalisation which may be of some interest.
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