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Replace x by the average (x + a/x) / 2 between x and a/x. Repeat from step 2, using this average as the new value of x. That is, if an arbitrary guess for is x 0, and x n + 1 = (x n + a/x n) / 2, then each x n is an approximation of which is better for large n than for small n.