In Westworld Season 3 episode 2, Maeve breaks a virtual park by asking it to answer the math problem "the square root of negative one." Here's how that happened.

The Babylonian method, also known as Heron’s method, is an iterative method for calculating the square root of a number. 1. Start with an initial approximation (x0) by finding two whole numbers whose ...

Many signal processing algorithms require the computation of the ratio of two numbers, the square root of a number, or a logarithm. These operations are difficult when using fixed point hardware that ...