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106.05 On the irrationality of sums of square roots

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2022

Nguyen Xuan Tho*
Affiliation:
Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam, e-mail: tho.nguyenxuan1@hust.edu.vn
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