How could I be able to find a square root without first squaring a certain number that equals the number I want to square? I am very confused on this topic and would like to know a lot more about it.
+33665 You could use an iterative numerical method. Suppose you want to find the square root of the number m, say.
Makle an initial guess x0 (just set it to m/4 or something like it) then for a number of iterations i, use
xi = (xi-1 + m/xi-1)/2 until xi is the same as xi-1.
For example, suppose you want to find the square root of 3:
