It doesn't help you find square roots.

它不会帮你算出平方根。

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This tells you how to find square roots.

这个让你知道怎样寻找平方根。

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It can also calculate percentages and square roots.

它也可以计算百分数和平方根。

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What is that? It's the piece of code we wrote for computing square roots, square roots of actually perfect squares.

对吧？这是什么呢？,这是我们写的计算平方根的代码，计算完全全平方根的。

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All right, this is actually a very old piece of imperative knowledge for computing square roots, it's attributed to Heron of Alexandria, although I believe that the Babylonians are suspected of knowing it beforehand.

好，这是一个很古老的,关于计算平方根的程序性知识，是亚历山大的海伦提出的，不过我怀疑在那之前,巴比伦人就已经猜想过了。

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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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In order to estimate, you had to think about and engage with the math behind exponents and square roots.

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And what, too, to make of the square roots of negative numbers?

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And Dr Agrawal is interested in using similar techniques to investigate the long-standing problem of taking square roots in finite fields (again, don't ask).

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