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Since my childhood it was my dream to discover something specially in maths, for experiment in maths you

need not require any special material like you need in Physics or Chemistry,it just requires a paper and a pen
I started my experiment with some basic things like why
. (+) +(+)=(+)
. (+) +(-)=(-)
. (-) (-)=(+)
. What is the logic behind the log table
. Why the value of trignometric ratio changes in different quadrants.
. Validity of all mensuration result.
. I also discovered the value of pi =22/7 in my own way.
. All these results gave me support to go ahead but I was looking for" MY OWN ORIGINAL PIECE OF WORK".
I found the division formula of finding the square root very interesting.I tried hard to find the logic behind this.
I questioned many teachers but no one gave me the satisfactory answer.
Last year after giving II nd year exam I had a great time to think on this matter.
Finally I found the logic of square root and then I made a new division method to find "CUBE ROOTS ".
I wrote a book 'My experiment with Square and Cube roots'. I gave that to our respected sir Pankaj Gupta
(Dept. of Maths ) DDUC .It consists of 50 pages having all the details of my experiment
e.g.'how the idea originated ,what problems came in my way and how I tackled them '

ISSAC NEWTON

But because of lack of space I am just introducing you with my formula .


I hope it would produce more thinkers not like me but better than me.
See whenever we need to find out the square root of a number ,it means to find a number whose square is
the given number.
Suppose we have to find the square root of : (a+b)2 = (a2 +b2 +2ab)
Then by doing any exercise we are trying to find :a and b such that

a a2+ b2+ 2ab a+b(?)


2a+b(?) x b2+ 2ab
b2+ 2ab

nil

Step 1. Find out "a" ,make it square to remove a2

Step 2. Once we have properly removed a2 ,then the next main thing is to remove b2+2ab .In this case
we have (a) so we can get 2a .Now make a guess (?) i.e b and multiply
(2ab+b)*b=2ab+b2.

144 = 12

a2 2ab b2

a 10 100+ 40+ 4 10+ 2


20+ 2(?) x 40+ 4
40+ 4
NIL
a b
2a b

fig.2
NOTE : This is based on the assumption that a number can be written in the form of (a+b) only.

10 144 10+2
-100
20+2 44
-44
nil

fig.3

If we leave our assumption then we get astonishing result.


Now we assume :

6 144 6+4+2 5 144 5+6+1 10 144 10+2


-36 -25 100
12+4(?) 108 10+6 119 20+2(?) 44
-64 -96 44
20+2(?) 44 22+1 23 NIL
-44 -23
NIL NIL

Rule: Whatever is your last guess add that in divisor before guessing new one

Conclusion : From the above example we find that the square root of a number can be found out
in various methods but we people always look for the shortest path to reach destination,so the shortest
way to find square root of 144 is to put 12.
But we can't always do this ,so the best method to get a number is its PLACE VALUE
So we take an example of 15625 whose root is 125

1 2 5
5
20
100

So in finding root of 15625


First we find : "a"=100
Then : "b"=20
Then : "c"=5

(100+20+5)2
100 15625 100 +20+5 a a2+b2+c2+2ab+2ac+2bc a+b+c
10000 a2
200+20 5625 2a+b b2+c2+2ab+2ac+2bc
4400 b2 +2ab
240+5 1225 2a+2b+c c2+2ac+2bc
1225 c2+2ac+2bc
nil nil

This is our world wide accepted method ,but see


the last result the only difference you will notice 1 15625 125
is the number of zeroes,if we remove those 1
extra zeroes we get the present formula. 22 x5625
How to remove zeroes is a technical and logical x44
thing which cannot be explained here due to lack 245 x1225
of space. x1225
xxx

(a3+b3+3a2b+3ab2)1/3= (a+b) a a3+ b3 + 3a2b+ 3ab2 a +b(?)


. a3
3a2 b3 + 3a2b+ 3ab2
3a
b(?)
b3 + 3a2b+ 3ab2

nil

Find "a" by guessing multiply "a" by "a2" so that you will get "a3",but write only "a" in
. quotient.
we know that we have to remove "b3+3a2b+3ab2 " since "b" is unknown ,
we can get two things from "a" i.e (i)3a2 (ii)3a
now make a guess of "b" and multiply as follows:
. 3a2 *b
. 3a *b2
. b *b2 =b3

7 421 875 75
343
Make pairs of 3, starting from unit place. 147XX 78 875
1 7*(7)2 = 343 (a3) 21X
2
2 3*(7) = 147(3a2) 5 735XX
3 3*7 = 21 (3a) 78 875 525X
3
4 5*52 =125 (b ) NIL 125
5 147*5= 735(3a2b) 78875
6 21*(5)2= 525(3ab2)

. You may ask what is xx and x


This is nothing but just the same sign that we use
in multiplication
We need to put xx with 3a2 and 3a .
9 970 299 99
729
243xx 241 299
27x 2187xx
9 2187x
241 299 729
nil 241299

In case of perfect cube by looking at only the the unit place one can guess the second digit
correctly.However this method is applicable to only those numbers which are cube of numbers
lying between (11-99).
For numbers greater than 99, we have to use the last version of this formula (which can not be
discussed here due to lack of space),which is universally applicable for all the digits as well as for
imperfect cube roots.
I know there will be several questions & doubts in your mind which is quite natural.interested person
can contact me personally.
mobile no. 981166 4206

Now I would like to thank all those without whom this work could not have been possible .

RESPECTED PRINCIPAL SIR


Teachers: H.C.Jain Kavita
& PawanGoel.
Sharma (for computer facility and valuable advice),Pankaj Gupta

Friends: Jai, Pawan,Anish,Bhavesh,Sameer,Deepak,Ravinder,Mukesh,Kapil,Ritika,Bhawna,


Shikha,Seema,Pooja,Anita,

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