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calculate square root : Many of the methods for calculating square roots of a positive real number S require an initial seed value. If the initial value is too far from the actual .....   More from Wikipedia

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Find the square root of 36.
Find the square root of 36. => 36 or 1,296 or 6 or 72..

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  this is a pretty easy method to find the square root of any number, a website showing this better is www.nist.gov
  This video shows a technique for calculating a square root by hand, without a calculator. It actually calculates each decimal place with perfect precision. The basis for why this process works is purely algebraic. When I figure this out for cube roots I will post a video on that as well.

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Question : can anyone tell me how to calculate square roots without using a calculator??????????? and please workout a example for me please.

Answer : The most common method for calculating a square root is given by the "divide and average" rule. The fact that this method will always converge to the positive square root of a number can be proved using calculus. In fact, this method can be derived directly using Newton's method on the function f(x) = sqrt(x) - c. Anyway.... to proceed... suppose we want to find the square root of x. We perform the following iterative procedure: 1. Start with any positive number y. You should make y close to the estimated square root of x to reduce the number of steps. 2. Replace y with the average of y and x/y, namely (y + x/y)/2 If you want the method to converge, an approximation to this value is sufficient. 3. Repeat step 2 until y and x/y are as close as desired. ===== Example: Suppose we want to calculate the square root of x=12. 1. The square root of 9 is 3 so let's start with y=3. 2a. (3 + 12/3)/2 = (3 + 4)/2 = 7/2 = 3.5 2b. (3.5 + 12/3.5)/2 = (3.5 + 3.4)/2 = 3.45....   More from Yahoo Answers

Question : I know what square roots are but I'm wondering how to calculate them other than pressing the square root key of a calculator.

Answer : If you want good approximations, the following works quickly and has been used to find approximate square roots by hand: Suppose you want to find the square root of 5. You know it is between 2 and 3, so take x=2 as your first approximation. Now, if you have an approximation x, get a better approximation by taking the average of x and 5/x: new approx=(x+5/x)/2=(x^2 +5)/(2x). With x=2, we get 9/4=2.25. The next approximation will then be ((9/4)^2 +5 )/(2*9/4)=161/72=2.236111.. Then next approximation will then be [(161/72)^2 +5]/[2*161/72]= 51841/23184=2.2360679779... Since sqrt(5)= 2.23606797749... this is a very good approximation. One more time through the averaging will give at least 16 decimal place accuracy. To find the square root of any other number, replace 5 by the number you want to find the square root of. There is also a proceedure similar to long division which will give the square root one decimal place at a time,but it is a bit hard to describe in this ....   More from Yahoo Answers

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