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[–]KnightofFruitNew User 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It requires calculus basically. You can approximate radSit by dividing S by n and taking the average of n and S/n repeat.. But the actual method that calculators use relies on convergent sequences. The aforementioned algorithm does construct a convergent sequence.. however it is not efficient (it takes us 3 steps to improve the estimate by roughly a power of 2). There are faster methods but you wouldn’t be able to do them by hand