square root


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a number that when multiplied by itself equals a given number

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* Miami has the most Christmas tree farms (per square root of the population), 0.024; Ft.
In this paper, hardware of single iterated multiplicative inverse square root is implemented.
Conveniently, in this case, factors are repeated, so taking just one of each repeated factor provides the square root (and reinforces the concept at the same time):
Plots of the frequency responses and their corresponding impulse responses of raised cosine (RC) and square root raised cosine (SRRC) pulses for various roll off factors, AY are sketched in section 6 of this paper.
The Sqrt is intended to be replaced with the square root sign.
He completed square roots within 30 seconds and cube roots within a minute, said a Limca spokesman.
Weapon error is computed as the square root of the sum of TLE squared plus WDE squared.
1+Cr (and its square root) is equal to or greater than unity (1 + Cr = 1 corresponds to the case of the unloaded line).
In An Imaginary Tale, Paul Nahin tells the 2,000-year-old history of one of mathematics' most elusive numbers, the square root of minus one, also know as i, and recreates the baffling mathematical problems that conjured it up and the colorful characters who tried to solve them.
So what does it matter if some French guy wants to think of his penis as the square root of minus one?
Determining square roots (in California, the integers between which the square root will fall) is less valuable, and arguably less difficult, than setting up and solving word problems.
Thus, in the above, A is an approximation to [Alpha]; and later on, for example, we let Am 1 denote the machine approximation to the mathematical value [Alpha]m 1 (where [Alpha]m 1 is used to denote the expression [Alpha] - 1), and we let Sqrt stand for the machine approximation to the true square root function sqrt.
Cumulative volatility is commonly computed by multiplying the annual volatility by the square root of the option term measured in years.
By 1831 he was ready to announce that the rate of diffusion of a gas is inversely proportional to the square root of its molecular weight.
This same calculation correctly uses "the square root of the sum of the squares" of standard deviations to determine the GR&R value.