By J. F. Traub
Communications of the ACM,
February 1960,
Vol. 3 No. 2, Page 86
10.1145/366959.366989
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Mr. Diran Sarafyan, in his paper “A New Method of Computation of Square Roots Without Using Divisions” (Communications, Nov. 1959) gave a way of computing square roots which converges faster than the standard Newton method. His technique can be generalized as follows.
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