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who was the scientist who invented square roots???​

Answer 1

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A symbol for square roots, written as an elaborate R, was invented by Regiomontanus (1436–1476). An R was also used for radix to indicate square roots in Gerolamo Cardano 's Ars Magna. According to historian of mathematics D.E. Smith, Aryabhata's method for finding the square root was first introduced in Europe by Cataneo —in 1546.

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Answer 2

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The Babylonians and Greeks have been credited with the discovery of Heron's method, the precursor of Newton's iterative method, although Indian mathematicians are thought to have used a similar system around 800BC. The Egyptians calculated square roots using an inverse proportion method as far back as 1650BC.