Answer

Yes it's strange, and yes there's a better way. Ideally we would loop, computing better and better approximations, until we calculated a value that was ``close enough'' to the square root to suit us. Unfortunately, a DO loop always runs for a fixed number of iterations. In a future lesson we will see a better way to write the ``SROOT'' function, but in the meantime this is the best we can do.

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