How to find square roots on paper

what steps do i take to find the square root of a number

=SQRT(A1)

or

=A1^0.5

esweckwerth wrote:
> what steps do i take to find the square root of a number

Dr. Math describes a bisection method, Newton's method, and a "longhand division" method for calculating square roots without a calculator/computer. http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/...rt_nocalc.html