![The Babylonian method for finding square roots by hand](https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/files/2016/05/sqrtNum2.png)
When I was in the sixth grade, I learned an iterative procedure for computing square roots by hand. Yes, I said by hand. Scientific calculators with a square root key were not yet widely available, so I and previous generations of children suffered through learning to calculate square roots by