Square root of 3 billion digits. The fraction (…) for the square root of three can be used as an approximation. Despite having a denominator of only 56, it differs from the correct value by less than (approximately ). The rounded value of 1.732 is correct to within 0.01% of the actual value. Archimedes reported , accurate to (six decimal places) and (four decimal places), respectively. It can be expressed as the continued fraction , expanded on the right. It can also be expressed by generalized continued fractions such as which is evaluated at every second term. The following nested square expressions converge to
Square root the arithmetic–geometric mean inequality for two variables and, as noted above, is the basis of the Ancient Greek understanding of "Heron's method". Another method of geometric construction uses right triangles and induction: can, of course, be constructed, and once has been constructed, the right triangle with 1 and for its legs has a hypotenuse of . The Spiral of Theodorus is constructed using successive square roots in this manner. Square root In mathematics, a square root of a number "a" is a number "y" such that ; in other words, a number "y" whose "square" (the result of multiplying the