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- From: n9146070@waldorf.cc.wwu.edu (Jacob C Kesinger)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Square root
- Message-ID: <n9146070.722056383@waldorf>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 03:13:03 GMT
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- There was a previous post about ways to find the square root of a number...
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- Here's my contribution:
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- Find the Taylor series about a (I used a=1, for simplicity)
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- (x-1)^.5=1+ (x-1)/2- (x-1)^2/4 +3(x-1)^3/8 -......
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- This is nasty, messy, ugly, and very likely wrong. However, it IS
- a method (*grin*)
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- Jake Kesinger
- n9146070@henson.cc.wwu.edu
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