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December 10, 2006

How to manually find a square root

Filed under: General — anton @ 9:01 am

How to manually find a square root

How to manually find a square root

Here is an almost-forgotten art, one that, with the advent of electronic calculators, will likely survive to the twenty-first century only on paper and in the memories of oldsters.

I don’t recall ever seeing this method in school. I do recall being taught the guess and refine method though which can get an aproximation pretty fast.

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