Yertle the Turtle

[Colin Holgate]

I’m sure any system would not attempt to parse an infinite number of decimal places. The turtle would probably be placed at 1.41421356237 pixels. If you want to try more accurately than that, here’s the first million decimal places:

https://apod.nasa.gov/htmltest/gifcity/sqrt2.1mil


> On Jan 31, 2017, at 11:22 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> If sqrt(2) is a bonkers number does anyone know how LOGO manages this?
> 
> Richmond.
> 
> On 1/31/17 5:36 pm, hh via use-livecode wrote:
>>> Richmond wrote:
>>> The problem is that (as far as I am aware) LiveCode cannot
>>> move objects for fractions of pixels.
>> Even if it could, this would be not enough, because sqrt(2)
>> is an irrational number ;-)
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