# Square number

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• ## Chinese mathematics

In The Nine Chapters, algorithms for finding integral parts of square roots or cube roots on the counting surface are based on the same idea as the arithmetic ones used today. These algorithms are set up on the surface in the same way as is a division: at the top, the “quotient”; under it, the “dividend”; one row below, the “divisor”;...
• ## definition and properties

Square numbers are the squares of natural numbers, such as 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, etc., and can be represented by square arrays of dots, as shown in Figure 1. Inspection reveals that the sum of any two adjacent triangular numbers is always a square number.
• ## mathematical puzzles

There is a wide variety of puzzles involving coloured square tiles and coloured cubes. In one, the object is to arrange the 24 three-colour patterns, including repetitions, that can be obtained by subdividing square tiles diagonally, using three different colours, into a 4 × 6 rectangle so that each pair of touching edges is the same colour and the entire border of the rectangle is the...
• ## numbers

Other classes of numbers include square numbers—i.e., those that are squares of integers; perfect numbers, those that are equal to the sum of their proper factors; random numbers, those that are representative of random selection procedures; and prime numbers, integers larger than 1 whose only positive divisors are themselves and 1.
• ## relationship to geometrical square

...A square has four axes of symmetry, and its two finite diagonals (as with any rectangle) are equal. Bisection of a square by a diagonal results in two right triangles. If the length of the side of a square is s, then the area of the square is s 2, or “ s squared.” From this relation is derived the algebraic use of the term square, which denotes...
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