Learning to calculate square roots quickly can make a huge difference in your maths exams. Whether you're doing algebra, geometry, or other topics, being fast and accurate with square roots gives you ...

[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? We don ...

Researchers at Caltech have devised a way to synthesize more than 100 strands of DNA that, by passing information as they attach and detach from one another, can calculate square roots of numbers ...

When you buy a new home, or sell your current one, thinking about how to measure its square footage probably isn’t top of mind. And while it may seem like an inconsequential metric, it’s one of the ...

Previous DNA computer models have been able to calculate square roots with up to 4-bit binary numbers, says the team, led by researcher Chunlei Guo, in the paper's abstract.

DNA-based circuits have already been shown to implement complex logic functions, but most existing circuits prior to the recent paper were unable to calculate square root operations.

A test-tube circuit made of DNA-based logic gates can calculate the square root of numbers up to 15, using DNA replication and sequence binding to conduct computations. It's excruciatingly slow ...

Estimating powers and roots Powers of any number can be estimated by finding the nearest integers above and below the number.