How Long to Read Exploring Continued Fractions: From the Integers to Solar Eclipses

How Long Does it Take to Read Exploring Continued Fractions: From the Integers to Solar Eclipses?

It takes the average reader 8 hours to read Exploring Continued Fractions: From the Integers to Solar Eclipses by Andrew J. Simoson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

There is a nineteen-year recurrence in the apparent position of the sun and moon against the background of the stars, a pattern observed long ago by the Babylonians. In the course of those nineteen years the Earth experiences 235 lunar cycles. Suppose we calculate the ratio of Earth's period about the sun to the moon's period about Earth. That ratio has 235/19 as one of its early continued fraction convergents, which explains the apparent periodicity. Exploring Continued Fractions explains this and other recurrent phenomena—astronomical transits and conjunctions, lifecycles of cicadas,...

How long is Exploring Continued Fractions: From the Integers to Solar Eclipses?

Exploring Continued Fractions: From the Integers to Solar Eclipses by Andrew J. Simoson is 480 pages long, and a total of 120,000 words.

This makes it 162% the length of the average book. It also has 147% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Exploring Continued Fractions: From the Integers to Solar Eclipses Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 55 minutes to read Exploring Continued Fractions: From the Integers to Solar Eclipses aloud.

What Reading Level is Exploring Continued Fractions: From the Integers to Solar Eclipses?

Exploring Continued Fractions: From the Integers to Solar Eclipses is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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