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
Integer square root Integer square root In number theory, the integer square root (isqrt) of a positive integer "n" is the positive integer "m" which is the greatest integer less than or equal to the square root of "n", For example, formula_2 because formula_3 and formula_4. One way of calculating formula_5 and formula_6 is to use Newton's method to find a solution for the equation formula_7, giving the iterative formula The sequence formula_9 converges quadratically to formula_5 as formula_11. It can be proven that if formula_12 is chosen as the initial guess, one can stop as soon as to ensure that formula_14 For