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  2. Methods of computing square roots - Wikipedia

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    Example: find the square root of 75. 75 = 75 × 10 2 · 0, so a is 75 and n is 0. 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.

  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. Radical symbol - Wikipedia

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    However, these characters differ in appearance from most mathematical typesetting by omitting the overline connected to the radical symbol, which surrounds the argument of the square root function. The OpenType math table allows adding this overline following the radical symbol. Legacy encodings of the square root character U+221A include:

  5. List of mathematical constants - Wikipedia

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    A mathematical constant is a key number whose value is fixed by an unambiguous definition, often referred to by a symbol (e.g., an alphabet letter), or by mathematicians' names to facilitate using it across multiple mathematical problems. [1]

  6. Newton's method - Wikipedia

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    By performing this iteration, it is possible to evaluate a square root to any desired accuracy by only using the basic arithmetic operations. The following three tables show examples of the result of this computation for finding the square root of 612, with the iteration initialized at the values of 1, 10, and −20.

  7. nth root - Wikipedia

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    A square root of a number x is a number r which, when squared, becomes x: =. Every positive real number has two square roots, one positive and one negative. For example, the two square roots of 25 are 5 and −5. The positive square root is also known as the principal square root, and is denoted with a radical sign:

  8. List of mathematical functions - Wikipedia

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    Square wave; Triangle wave; Rectangular function; Floor function: Largest integer less than or equal to a given number. Ceiling function: Smallest integer larger than or equal to a given number. Sign function: Returns only the sign of a number, as +1, −1 or 0. Absolute value: distance to the origin (zero point)

  9. Algebraic number - Wikipedia

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    The square root of 2 is an algebraic number equal to the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle with legs of length 1. An algebraic number is a number that is a root of a non-zero polynomial in one variable with integer (or, equivalently, rational ) coefficients.