Chronology Current Month Current Thread Current Date
[Year List] [Month List (current year)] [Date Index] [Thread Index] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Date Prev] [Date Next]

Re: [Phys-l] perfect-square puzzler



When I heard the puzzler last Saturday, I immediately knew the number
was not a perfect square. Perfect squares cannot have 2 in the units
place. Nor 3, nor 7, nor 8. All you need to know is the square of the
integers 0-9.

*******************************************************
"Are you unaware that the true astronomer must be a person of great
wisdom?"
--
Plato, Epinomis
*******************************************************

Dr. George Spagna
Physics Department
Randolph-Macon College
P.O. Box 5005
Ashland, VA 23005-5505

phone: (804) 752-7344
fax: (804) 752-4724
e-mail: gspagna@rmc.edu
http://faculty.rmc.edu/gspagna/public_html/index.html