Thanks for the info... 

What I did was since the square root of 9 can be expressed as 9^(1/2) I
just did that.. And it seems to work.. 

daniel

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-----Original Message-----
From: Kim, Cardyin [mailto:CKim@s...] 
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 12:06 PM
To: professional vb
Subject: [pro_vb] RE: Just kinda messing arround


Daniel,

   There is an equation that you can use to manually calculate 
numbers such as square root, cube root, e^1, pi, etc.  I remember
learning years and years ago the manual way of calculating square roots.
I don't remember the exact calculation, but I do remember that all it
involved was division, multiplication, addition and subtraction.  The
layout of it was similiar to a long division problem that you do by
hand.

   In the computer world, they use these types of tricks and others.
Some of the calculation tricks used by computers are simply 
approximations and if carried out to the 100th place or more would 
give a grossly incorrect results.  It's just that in the PC world
calculations to the 100th placed just aren't used so the approximation
is acceptable.

   To create the full blown accurate version of a particular number you
would need to manually write a program as you have suggested. If you do
by this method, you will quickly find that you will be limited by your
processor speed and memory/storage constraints.

Hope this helps,

Cardyin

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