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Author Topic: Square Root Formula Visualizer: Walk like the Babylonians  (Read 18,220 times)

shinkarom

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Square Root Formula Visualizer: Walk like the Babylonians
« on: November 17, 2018, 05:04 PM »
https://shinkarom.github.io/sqrt

The Babylonian method of finding square root is:
  1. guess a random number
  2. divide the number whose square root you want to find by it
  3. average the two and get your next guess
Rinse, repeat until your guesses are too close to each other.

This program allows you to see each step of this procedure.

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Re: Square Root Formula Visualizer: Walk like the Babylonians
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2018, 01:15 AM »
That's lovely!  :Thmbsup:
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