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Old September 22nd, 2004, 08:37 PM
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Default Re: OT: Interesting math problem...

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Kamog said:
If you're allowed to use logarithms:

sqrt (x) = e^(0.5 * ln(x))
Kamog, I don't mean to be picky, but if you have decimal exponents available to do the e^ portion, you don't need logarithms at all:

sqrt (x) = x^(0.5)

- it's a basic identity.
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