Mladen Vassilev–Missana
Notes on Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics
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Volume 22, 2016, Number 2, Pages 4—9
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Mladen Vassilev–Missana
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Abstract
Let n > 3 be arbitrary integer. In the present paper it is shown that if K is an arbitrary circle and Mi, i = 1,…,n are points on K, dividing K into n equal arcs, then for each point M on K, different from the mentioned above, at least of the distances |MMi| are irrational numbers.
Keywords
- Distance
- Irrational number
- Circle
AMS Classification
- 97G40
- 11XX
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Vassilev–Missana, M. (2016). On irrationality of some distances between points on a circle. Notes on Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics, 22(2), 4-9.