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Standard Operating Procedure: Completing the Square for Stress Analysis

In a technical manual for structural stress analysis, a technician is required to normalize the expression p2+12pp^2 + \frac{1}{2}p by completing the square. Describe the standard three-step procedure used to transform this expression into a perfect square trinomial. Your response must explicitly state how to calculate the constant term to be added and identify the final factored binomial square form.

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