Learnt about Heron's method to finding square roots this morning.
https://paste.sr.ht/~rabbits/9211f18fac8055aae3921ecf02b0da9dde439d5b
Learnt about Heron's method to finding square roots this morning. 9 comments
@neauoire there's a kinda matching technique for squaring large numbers that's somehow more useful but all of it is "this is why calculators exist"
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@opfez i've changed my name like two months ago and you're the FIRST ONE to make the connection.. |
@neauoire when I was pretty young, like 9, my dad taught me this so he could show me off as his precocious calculator to his engineer friends and I still hate math to this day.