Joe Root his first golden duck in his ODI career. The 5th ODI was better for Root as he scored a quick 21 before being bowled and also took the wicket of George Bailey. England lost the series 2–1 and Root finished the series with 36 runs and 1 wicket. Root was selected for the 2013-14 Ashes series. He was selected at number 6 for the first Test as Michael Carberry was given the opening batsman role alongside Alastair Cook. Root only managed 2 runs from 7 balls in the first innings before being caught off a Mitchell Johnson delivery. In the
Nth root algorithm Nth root algorithm The principal "n"th root formula_1 of a positive real number "A", is the positive real solution of the equation (for integer "n" there are "n" distinct complex solutions to this equation if formula_3, but only one is positive and real). There is a very fast-converging "n"th root algorithm for finding formula_1: A special case is the familiar square-root algorithm. By setting "n" = 2, the "iteration rule" in step 2 becomes the square root iteration rule: Several different derivations of this algorithm are possible. One derivation shows it is a special case of Newton's method (also called