16 1 15 step 2. 15 3 12 step 3. 100 1 99 99 3 96 96 5 91 91 7 84 84 9 75 75 11 64 64 13 51 51 15 36 36 17 19 19 19 0 to find the square root we subtract successive odd numbers from the number till we obtain 0.