First of all, it's clear from the Pythagoras' theorem that a is the square root of ^2 + ^2.

首先,根据毕达哥拉斯定理,勾股定理在西方被称为"毕达哥拉斯定理"

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If I pick an angle of 60 degrees, these are some numbers like half and root 3 over 2.

要是我选择一个 60°的角,上面的系数就会是二分之一和二分之根号三

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You know, if you're wandering through Harvard Square and you see an out-of-work Harvard grad, they're handing out examples of square roots, they'll give you an example and you can test it to see is the square root of 2, 1.41529 or whatever.

你知道，如果你从哈佛校园里穿过去,你看见了一个失业校友，正在派发平方根的示例，他们会给你一个例子,而你会检查2的平方根是1。41529或者别的什么。

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I first tested it on the square root of 4 and in one iteration it found 2.

我首先测了下求4的平方根4,它只迭代了一次并返回了2。

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If I say x is 2, I want to know, what's the square root of 2, well if you're enough of a geek, you'll say 1.41529 or whatever the heck it is, but in general, this doesn't help you find the square root.

如果我说X等于，我想知道，2的平方根是多少，那么如果你足够书呆子你就会说,1。41529或者随便什么玩意儿，但是大体上，它不会帮你算出平方根。

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