Re: [HM] First incommensurables, Theaetetus, etc
Roger Cooke (cooke@emba.uvm.edu)
Mon, 21 Dec 1998 17:14:29 -0500 (EST)
It could certainly have meant the diagonal and side of a pentagon, whose
incommensurability is even easier to prove from the Euclidean algorithm
than that of the diagonal and side of a square.