Microsoft Excel is a powerful tool for carrying out complex calculations. If you work on Excel, then you might come across performing mathematical operations almost every day. Sometimes, we face ...

The ancient Greeks wanted to believe that the universe could be described in its entirety using only whole numbers and the ratios between them — fractions, or what we now call rational numbers. But ...

A computer made from strands of DNA in a test tube can calculate the square root of numbers up to 900. Chunlei Guo at the University of Rochester in New York state and colleagues developed a computer ...

We have seen the use of digital roots to check various calculations. Today we look at how we can make use of digital roots to find square roots. There are two uses of digital root in squares. It helps ...

A new DNA computer calculates square roots of perfect squares up to 900. Like quantum computers, DNA computers are an exciting frontier of post-silicon computing. Where previous examples were up to 4 ...

Let us look at some interesting facts about squares and square roots. A square and its square root are the reverse of each other. But what happens to squares and square roots of negative numbers? When ...

Originating in the 1920s as a sampling scheme for agricultural regulatory inspectors, the square root (Sqrt) of the lot size (N) + 1 was semiformalized in an unpublished report by the Association of ...