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12-Mar-2019 8:34 am


Finding square root of a numbers in your head.

Looks like it works fine.

sqrt(20) = gives a result of 4.5 in a single iteration.
Actual is 4.47.

Result squared back to original is 20.25.
Which is within 1% of the original.

The key part is :
correction = difference / (2*approximate square root)

12-Mar-2019 8:34 am

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12-Mar-2019