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D₁₇=665857 making -1.41421356237…with 12 digits’ precision. Extending the Method for √p It seems like the idea works (at least for finding √2) and we could generalize it to get a new iterative method to find √p for any positive number p: start with a pair of values N₀ and D₀ and iterate using a