Giga-flops? That's passé! I only deal in teraFLOPs.

Please explain why your method for square roots (not yours, actually, you only
posted a link to it, I'm sure you never read it) is substantially different from
the Newton's Method for solving higher roots. Both iterate, making successively
closer approximations. The only difference is that the traditional "longhand"
methods you linked to avoid estimating larger than the answer, thus it takes
more iterations to work. When its decomposed, it reveals manipulations similar
to Newton's, but less effectively.

Your claim that the "high school" method is "algebraic" while Newton's is
something different is simply nonsense. Further, while you were able to post
links to algorithms for square and cubed roots, I provided and explained the
fourth root, which I've actually used professionally.




"JAXAshby" wrote in message
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jeffies will twist in the wind for days trying to figure out how to google the
info on algebraicly calc'ing 4th roots

Already he is posting info about companies that failed in the early 1990's,
and
another company that suceeded in the 1990's to show that something available
in
the 1950's didn't exist. If I asked him what a "flop" is in the context he is
using he would turn eight shades of red (hint jeffies, google "giga-flop" and
see what you get).

so let me put that dog jeffies out of his misery.

jeffies, it is mathematically impossible to calculate algebraicly the nth root
for any n higher than 3.

if you had the background to even attempt to try to get the degree in physics
you claim you have, you would have known that long before you started college.

I did. and there was no google in those days.

now, jeffies, go mutter.