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  2. Methods of computing square roots - Wikipedia

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    A method analogous to piece-wise linear approximation but using only arithmetic instead of algebraic equations, uses the multiplication tables in reverse: the square root of a number between 1 and 100 is between 1 and 10, so if we know 25 is a perfect square (5 × 5), and 36 is a perfect square (6 × 6), then the square root of a number greater than or equal to 25 but less than 36, begins with ...

  3. Square root - Wikipedia

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    Notation for the (principal) square root of x. For example, √ 25 = 5, since 25 = 5 ⋅ 5, or 5 2 (5 squared). In mathematics, a square root of a number x is a number y such that =; in other words, a number y whose square (the result of multiplying the number by itself, or ) is x. [1]

  4. Square root of a 2 by 2 matrix - Wikipedia

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    In many cases, such a matrix R can be obtained by an explicit formula. Square roots that are not the all-zeros matrix come in pairs: if R is a square root of M, then −R is also a square root of M, since (−R)(−R) = (−1)(−1)(RR) = R 2 = M. A 2×2 matrix with two distinct nonzero eigenvalues has four square roots. A positive-definite ...

  5. Square root of a matrix - Wikipedia

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    The principal square root of a real positive semidefinite matrix is real. [3] The principal square root of a positive definite matrix is positive definite; more generally, the rank of the principal square root of A is the same as the rank of A. [3] The operation of taking the principal square root is continuous on this set of matrices. [4]

  6. Newton's method - Wikipedia

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    For example, for Newton's method as applied to a function f to oscillate between 0 and 1, it is only necessary that the tangent line to f at 0 intersects the x-axis at 1 and that the tangent line to f at 1 intersects the x-axis at 0. [19] This is the case, for example, if f(x) = x 3 − 2x + 2.

  7. Casus irreducibilis - Wikipedia

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    Casus irreducibilis occurs when none of the roots are rational and when all three roots are distinct and real; the case of three distinct real roots occurs if and only if ⁠ q 2 / 4 ⁠ + ⁠ p 3 / 27 ⁠ < 0, in which case Cardano's formula involves first taking the square root of a negative number, which is imaginary, and then taking the ...

  8. nth root - Wikipedia

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    A root of degree 2 is called a square root and a root of degree 3, a cube root. Roots of higher degree are referred by using ordinal numbers, as in fourth root, twentieth root, etc. The computation of an n th root is a root extraction. For example, 3 is a square root of 9, since 3 2 = 9, and −3 is also a square root of 9, since (−3) 2 = 9.

  9. Radical of an integer - Wikipedia

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    There is no known polynomial-time algorithm for computing the square-free part of an integer. [ 3 ] The definition is generalized to the largest t {\displaystyle t} -free divisor of n {\displaystyle n} , r a d t {\displaystyle \mathrm {rad} _{t}} , which are multiplicative functions which act on prime powers as