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basketball4ever

Wed Apr 13, 2005 8:33 pm


Finding the square root without the sqrt command

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is there a way???


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Cervantes

Wed Apr 13, 2005 8:44 pm



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Yes.

put 4**(1/2)



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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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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!