This was using something called a bisection method, which is related to something called binary search, which we'll see lots more of later, to find square roots.

你应该想起来,我们是以一个,叫做二分法求平方根的问题结束的，它运用了二分法去求一个数的平方根，二分法和我们将要花很多时间。

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Remember, I said when we do a bisection method, we're assuming the answer lies somewhere between Well, what is the square root of a quarter? It is a half.

记住，我提过当我们用二分法的时候,我们假设答案处于,上边界和下边界之间,0。25的平方根是多少？,是0。5。

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