Almost integer

Ed Pegg Jr. noted that the length d equals , which is very close to 7 (7.0000000857 ca.)[1]

In recreational mathematics, an almost integer (or near-integer) is any number that is not an integer but is very close to one. Almost integers may be considered interesting when they arise in some context in which they are unexpected.

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