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Volume 3 ,  Issue 2  (February 1960) table of contents
Page: 86  
Year of Publication: 1960
ISSN:0001-0782
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J. F. Traub  Bell Telephone Lab, Inc., Murray Hill, NJ
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

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.