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Article #13559Square root method sought
From: TedSRussll
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 00:00
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 00:00
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Many years ago, my father taught me a way of computing square roots exactly (i.e., without the use of tables or logarithms). It was a procedure similar to long division, but I have forgotten the algorithm, except that I remember you group the digits in the divisor into groups of two. My 12-year-old son is bugging me to remember how to do it, and I have to teach him how or the family legacy will be broken. Does anyone know how to do it? Ted Russell
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f4956,bf462e58ac116794,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf4956,public From: tedsrussll@aol.com (TedSRussll) Subject: Square root method sought Date: 1996/09/13 Message-ID: <51d79u$97o@newsbf02.news.aol.com> X-Deja-AN: 180541992 sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) reply-to: tedsrussll@aol.com (TedSRussll) newsgroups: fj.sci.math