If you want to add a little excitement to this project, remember, that there's no problem that can't be solved with a sufficient quantity of high explosives. --Bob
Interestingly, I remember being in college when a friend of mine paid about $400 for one of the first 4 function electronic calculators for his "scientific" classes. No joking - all that money and the only way to get a square root was by multiplying guestimates by each other and then making adjustments and trying again until he got it right. No kidding, this was "state of the art". Of course, the slide rule was quicker if not accurate to the same number of decimal places.