Years ago, no math education was complete without understanding how to compute a square root. Today, you are probably just ...

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The square root of a number N is a number which, when squared (multiplied by itself), results in N. How did the ancient Greeks find square roots? Their method is nowadays called a ‘Greek ladder’, ...

Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 55, No. 192 (Oct., 1990), pp. 745-763 (19 pages) We give a generalization to Abelian varieties over finite fields of the algorithm of ...