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Joby, a manufacturer of electric vertical takeoff-and-landing aircraft (eVTOLs), just announced that the Federal Aviation Administration has given it the green light to develop software that could lead to a consumer-facing app. The suite of programs, which the company has dubbed ‘ElevateOS, will include ‘pilot tools, operations and schedule management software, a mobile-first rider app, and an intelligent matching engine,’ the company said in its announcement.” [// Quartz »]( [/math] [How the square root of 2 became a number | Quanta Magazine]( [How the square root of 2 became a number]( “Though the ancient Greeks could establish what √2 was not, they didn’t have a language for explaining what it was. For millennia, this sufficed. Renaissance mathematicians manipulated what they came to call irrational numbers while trying to solve algebraic equations. The modern notation for square roots came into use in the 16th and 17th centuries. But still, there was something slippery about them. 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