[TUHS] Lorinda Cherry

[arnold at skeeve.com]

Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Feb 2022, George Michaelson wrote:
>
> > I use BC as a daily driver like most people. I never quite got DC, and 
> > wondered at the duality of them. Very interesting to have the background 
> > explained.
>
> You know you're a greybeard if you can remember why the DC sequence 
> "99k2vp8opq" was so popular...
>
> -- Dave

I guess I'm not enough of a greybeard:

$ dc
99k2vp8opq
1.4142135623730950488016887242096980785696718753769480731766797379907\
32478462107038850387534327641572
1.3240474631771674622042627661154672512575174353366027242235650231664\
2753102603147144252257620301035270505416503

I recognize the first value as the square root of two. What is
the second value?

Thanks,

Arnold