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- From: Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Recipe for Fast square root function sqrt()
- Date: Mon, 01 Apr 96 14:29:09 GMT
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- In article <4jmthv$3mr@nntp5.u.washington.edu>
- sgsrini@u.washington.edu "'srini' Srinivasan Srivilliputhur" writes:
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- >Hi-
- >A long while ago there was something about fast square root functions.
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- I think you'll find that these were integer square root functions.
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- >I'm specifically looking for a sqrt(x) that is accurate to about 4 decimal
- >places. 'x' argument for sqrt() is about, '0.05 < x < 10^8'.
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- I doubt whether you'll do much better than sqrt() itself.
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