I HAVE read Mr. Dodwell's remarks with interest. It will be noticed that I did not say that it was my friend Mr. Siemens that made the statement, but merely that it was said at the meeting. My ...
The square root of a number N is a number which, when squared (multiplied by itself), results in N. How did the ancient Greeks find square roots? Their method is nowadays called a ‘Greek ladder’, ...
IN NATURE of June 9, a correspondent, A. R., gives a method of James Thomson's for obtaining a series of convergents to a square root in the form of vulgar fractions.
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