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Tangent of string of 5 (Posted on 2019-06-04)

Compute tan (1/55555) (angle is in degree) on a calculator.

in the denominator you can use any number of 5’s, the more the better. You should get an interesting number. Is it a coincidence, can you explain it?

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re: Again, quite interesting

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(In reply to Again, quite interesting by broll)

Your calculation is being done in radian mode. The puzzle called for degree mode.

In degree mode the calculator gives 3.14162406983059 * 10^-7

Posted by Charlie on 2019-06-05 12:23:35

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