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:[[User:Johnuniq|Johnuniq]] ([[User talk:Johnuniq|talk]]) 04:40, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
:::Regarding Floydian's remark about Wikipedia being written for the general public and not professionals, I do think one has to be a little careful about making quite such sweeping statements. For example Wikipedia quite properly has a very useful article on [[Lie groups]] but it's certainly not written for the general public. Realistically we have to expect that the target audience varies with the nature of the article. Computing square roots (by implication to arbitrary precision) strikes me as an essentially technical matter and in this case, beyond providing the customary lead designed to instruct the widest possible audience, one really isn't at pains to address the general public. The [[Square root]] article is a different matter but again we can overstate the case even there. [[User:FightingMac|FightingMac]] ([[User talk:FightingMac|talk]]) 04:13, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
== Merging proposal ==
It seems to me that the scope of this article is methods for numerical calculuation of square roots, and that the sections on continued fractions and Pell's equation do not belong here. On the other hand, the example <math>\sqrt{114}</math> expressed as a periodic continued fraction would be good in the article [[periodic continued fraction]]. Any opposite views? [[User:Isheden|Isheden]] ([[User talk:Isheden|talk]]) 20:52, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
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