Why are square roots so fundamental?
I believe it rests in their perfect-square nature. The Greeks recognized their importance primarily because of how they illustrated quantities. In reference to square quantities, their numbering system illustrated them as simply squares; for instance 4 was represented by 4 dots arranged in a 2 by 2 square, 9 was a 3 by 3 square... This somewhat perfect nature in quantifiable number-sense that is, or perhaps this pattern, if you will, is significant in many aspects of our world... However, I wonder, if the ultimate flaw in our thoughts or prejudgment (at least until recently) may indeed be this obsession with finding order/patterns of repetition in our world?
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Where is our universe?
Could it be that our universe exists within the empty space of a piece of used bubble gum on the bedpost of someone existing in the 11th dimension of the "Theory of Everything?"
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First Principal?
As knowledge accelerates over the past 100 years, the schools of thoughts are beginning to unify. The theory of everything is the unification of all physics prescriptions, and a continual investigation into our...
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String Theory
I just heard this on TV...but can't remember it all.The partial definition of String Theory is something like: quantum mechanics is all about the smallest, and theory of relativity is the other end of the spectrum,...
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Square Root Formula
Does anyone have a formula for finding the square root of a number? I know that one can use a calculator but there is a formula in the calculator in order for it to perform. I would like to have the formula along with...