Project Gutenberg 2009-09-13 Public domain in the USA. 60 Burton, Russell Beecham, Tom 1926 2000 Beecham, Thomas A. Weak on Square Roots Reading ease score: 75.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "Weak on Square Roots" by Russell Burton is a science fiction short story published in the early 1950s. The narrative revolves around the creation of a robot named Pascal by Ronald Lovegear, who struggles to balance his obsession with technology and his marital relationship. The story explores themes of artificial intelligence, human emotions, and the potential complexities that arise when machines take on roles traditionally held by people. The plot follows Ronald as he brings home Pascal, a cutting-edge computer intended to become a mechanical servant. As Ronald immerses himself in perfecting Pascal's functionality, his wife, Corinne, becomes increasingly drawn to the robot, experiencing a conflicting mix of affection and disdain towards both Pascal and Ronald. The story culminates in a poignant moment when Ronald discovers a moment of intimacy between Corinne and Pascal, leading him to a painful realization about his wife’s emotional connection to the robot. Ultimately, he decides to rid their lives of Pascal, throwing away the pumpkin-headed creation that had inadvertently transformed their lives in ways he had not anticipated. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Short stories Robots -- Fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 43458 43465 2024-10-12T18:09:51.906086 2023-09-13T08:32:36.877977 text/html text/html 39373 2021-01-05T13:41:25 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 216190 2021-01-05T13:41:25 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 293025 2024-10-12T18:09:57.867010 application/epub+zip 291434 2024-10-12T18:09:55.327049 application/epub+zip 71802 2024-10-12T18:09:53.947030 application/epub+zip 444699 2024-10-12T18:09:59.759008 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 436641 2024-10-12T18:09:57.011037 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 167464 2022-09-14T03:50:52.597958 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 36576 36475 2024-10-12T18:09:51.619050 2023-09-13T08:32:36.694987 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 36455 2021-01-05T13:41:25 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14153 2021-01-05T13:41:25 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20253 2024-10-12T18:09:59.895002 application/rdf+xml 15074 2024-10-12T18:09:54.558026 image/jpeg 3851 2024-10-12T18:09:54.228028 image/jpeg 292225 2024-10-12T18:09:51.921067 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog