> Colin H. wrote:
> I’m sure any system would not attempt to parse an infinite number of decimal
> places. The turtle would probably be placed at 1.41421356237 pixels. If you
> want to try more accurately than that, here’s the first million decimal 
> places: 
> https://apod.nasa.gov/htmltest/gifcity/sqrt2.1mil

To make the confusion complete (or remove it):
If the turtle of Pythagoras, sitting at (0,0) had to move sqrt(2) units, it
would do that nevertheless *exactly*, crawling for example from (0,0) to (1,1).
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