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In the movie "Gifted" a girl calculates the approximate square root of a 4-digit number in her head. Here the scene on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
by thomasmg 4y ago
In the movie "Gifted" a girl calculates the approximate square root of a 4-digit number in her head. Here the scene on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37meAwQqPsE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37meAwQqPsE
Later, it is said she is using the Trachtenberg system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trachtenberg_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trachtenberg_system
The square root method seems to be described in the book "The Trachtenberg speed system of basic mathematics", the text is available on archive.org:
https://archive.org/stream/TheTrachtenbergSpeedSystemOfBasicMathematics_201803/The%20Trachtenberg%20Speed%20System%20of%20Basic%20Mathematics_djvu.txt https://archive.org/stream/TheTrachtenbergSpeedSystemOfBasic... (search for "square root").