Finding the square root without the sqrt command

[basketball4ever]

is there a way???

[Cervantes]

Yes.

code:

put 4**(1/2)

[Martin]

Or, if you want to have a slightly more interesting answer, you could use a binomial expansion.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BinomialSeries.html

[Delos]

[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!