Computer Science Canada Finding the square root without the sqrt command |
| Author: | basketball4ever [ Wed Apr 13, 2005 8:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Finding the square root without the sqrt command |
is there a way??? |
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| Author: | Cervantes [ Wed Apr 13, 2005 8:44 pm ] | ||
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Yes.
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| Author: | Martin [ Wed Apr 13, 2005 8:48 pm ] |
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Or, if you want to have a slightly more interesting answer, you could use a binomial expansion. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BinomialSeries.html |
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| Author: | Delos [ Wed Apr 13, 2005 9:00 pm ] |
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[cough] I posted up a method using Newton's Method a while back. Don't know if it's still around. As a note though, bugz gave me some strange but normal looking numbers that killed it :S. It still worked though! |
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