Revisiting Square Roots with a Fast Estimator

Abstract

The square root of prime numbers is an important mathematical primitive with wide applications and its computational complexity has drawn much attention among researchers. In particular, principal square root of 2 is known to be irrational.

Keywords

applications babylonian method Efficiency infinite series optimisation silver ratio square root

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  • Language & Pages

    English, 45-52

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    D.1.0