[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?

Making life simpler, [nats.fr] settled on a gamma of two, which means taking a bunch of square roots, which isn’t fast on an FPGA. [nats]’s algorithm is pretty neat: it uses a first-stage ...

Mathematicians once turned up their noses at imaginary numbers. But complex analysis actually simplifies math and physics.

Time and space are frequent topics of discussion for cosmologists, especially those studying exotic celestial bodies like ...

\({9}\) 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 ...

Some quadratics cannot be factorised. An alternative method to solve a quadratic equation is to complete the square. To solve an equation of the form \(x^2 + bx + c = 0\) consider the expression ...