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Square root of two

The square root x = √2 can be calculated with the iteration

as a variant of the babylonian method.

 


Explanation

If we begin with x0 = 1 the following iterations for 2 give

and that is even more accurate than the value 1.414213562… that is shown on your calculator.

 


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