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The digits beyond the first few decimal places are of no practical or scientific value. Four decimal places are sufficient for the design of the finest engines; ten decimals are sufficient to obtain the circumference of the earth to within a fraction of an inch if the earth were a smooth sphere...

Petr Beckmann

Continued fractions are part of the "lost mathematics," the mathematics now considered too advanced for high school and too elementary for college.

Petr Beckmann

Petr Beckmann

Petr Beckmann

Born: November 13, 1924

Died: August 3, 1993 (aged 68)

Bio: Petr Beckmann was a professor of electrical engineering who became a well-known advocate of libertarianism and nuclear power. Later in his life he challenged Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and other accepted theories in modern physics.

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