Unlike the more familiar real numbers—positive and negative integers, fractions, square roots, cube roots and even numbers ...

[MindYourDecisions] presents a Babylonian tablet dating back to around 1800 BC that shows that the hypotenuse of a unit square is the square root of two or 1.41421. How did they know that?

\({9}\) is a square number. \(3 \times 3 = 9\) \(3 \times 3\) can also be written as \(3^2\). This is pronounced "\({3}\) squared". \({8}\) is a cube number. The ...

Logarithms and square root are non-elementary operations frequently used in digital signal processing. In this work, implementation and design of an IP-Core to compute square root and multibase ...

To find the cube root of a number, we have to find out which number when multiplied by itself twice gives that number. This is the same as trying to find out the length of the side of a cube when ...