can someone tell how babilonians find square roots?where can i search that?
2006-10-28 12:56:44 · 4 answers · asked by bonato 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
Try this site -- they used Newton's method over three centuries before Newton was born :
http://www.pballew.net/oldsqrt.htm
2006-10-28 13:01:31 · answer #1 · answered by Gene 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus is a copy from 1650 BCE of an even earlier work and shows us how the Egyptians extracted square roots.
In Ancient India, the knowledge of theoretical and applied aspects of square and square root was at least as old as the Sulba Sutras, dated around 800-500 B.C. (possibly much earlier). A method for finding very good approximations to the square roots of 2 and 3 are given in the Baudhayana Sulba Sutra. Aryabhata in the Aryabhatiya (section 2.4), has given a method for finding the square root of numbers having many digits.
D.E. Smith in History of Mathematics, says, about the existing situation in Europe: "In Europe these methods (for finding out the square and square root) did not appear before Cataneo (1546). He gave the method of Aryabhata for determining the square root".
2006-10-28 20:07:31 · answer #2 · answered by ken c 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_mathematics
2006-10-28 19:59:32 · answer #3 · answered by RichUnclePennybags 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath190.htm
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=babylonians%2C+square+roots&sp=1&fr2=sp-top&fr=ush-ans&ei=UTF-8&SpellState=n-88242779_q-bP0wOMwKeUSKtpy3ykSDJwABAA%40%40
2006-10-28 20:01:26 · answer #4 · answered by MsMath 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋