Is there a way to obtain an approximate expression for the square root $\sqrt{\varepsilon}$ of a small number $\varepsilon \ll 1$?
To be more precise, I would like to have an expression which (1) I can easily handle by a mental calculation and (2) does not involve a square root. Of course, I can easily calculate $\sqrt{0.01}$ but I have to admit that I would have to think a bit harder for $\sqrt{0.001}$.
I commonly use Taylor series expansions to calculate approximate results for expressions like $(1+\varepsilon)^\alpha \approx 1 + \alpha \varepsilon$ but this approach obviously fails here since $\sqrt{\varepsilon}$ is not analytic for $\varepsilon = 0$.