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  2. Square root - Wikipedia

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    The square root of a positive integer is the product of the roots of its prime factors, because the square root of a product is the product of the square roots of the factors. Since p 2 k = p k , {\textstyle {\sqrt {p^{2k}}}=p^{k},} only roots of those primes having an odd power in the factorization are necessary.

  3. Methods of computing square roots - Wikipedia

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    From the multiplication tables, the square root of the mantissa must be 8 point something because a is between 8×8 = 64 and 9×9 = 81, so k is 8; something is the decimal representation of R. The fraction R is 75 − k 2 = 11, the numerator, and 81 − k 2 = 17, the denominator. 11/17 is a little less than 12/18 = 2/3 = .67, so guess .66 (it's ...

  4. Exponentiation - Wikipedia

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    8.2.3.1 Examples. 8.2.4 Failure of power and logarithm identities. ... which is the definition of square root: / =. The definition of exponentiation ...

  5. Integer square root - Wikipedia

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    In number theory, the integer square root (isqrt) of a non-negative integer n is the non-negative integer m which is the greatest integer less than or equal to the square root of n, ⁡ = ⌊ ⌋. For example, isqrt ⁡ ( 27 ) = ⌊ 27 ⌋ = ⌊ 5.19615242270663... ⌋ = 5. {\displaystyle \operatorname {isqrt} (27)=\lfloor {\sqrt {27}}\rfloor ...

  6. Irrational number - Wikipedia

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    The square root of 2 was likely the first number proved irrational. [27] The golden ratio is another famous quadratic irrational number. The square roots of all natural numbers that are not perfect squares are irrational and a proof may be found in quadratic irrationals.

  7. Nested radical - Wikipedia

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    In the case of two nested square roots, the following theorem completely solves the problem of denesting. [2]If a and c are rational numbers and c is not the square of a rational number, there are two rational numbers x and y such that + = if and only if is the square of a rational number d.

  8. Tonelli–Shanks algorithm - Wikipedia

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    The Tonelli–Shanks algorithm (referred to by Shanks as the RESSOL algorithm) is used in modular arithmetic to solve for r in a congruence of the form r 2 ≡ n (mod p), where p is a prime: that is, to find a square root of n modulo p.

  9. Newton's method - Wikipedia

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    Since cos(x) ≤ 1 for all x and x 3 > 1 for x > 1, we know that our solution lies between 0 and 1. A starting value of 0 will lead to an undefined result which illustrates the importance of using a starting point close to the solution. For example, with an initial guess x 0 = 0.5, the sequence given by Newton's method is: