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- From: martin@matilda.vut.edu.au (Martin Schweitzer)
- Newsgroups: comp.programming
- Subject: Finding integer square root
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.071704.6698@matilda.vut.edu.au>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 07:17:04 GMT
- Reply-To: martin@matilda.vut.edu.au (Martin Schweitzer)
- Organization: Victoria University of Technology, Melb, Australia
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- I'm looking for an efficient algorithm that will find the highest integer
- x such that x * x < n for some given integer n.
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- Of course there are some brute force methods, but I seem to
- recall coming across an algorithm once in a text about
- proving correctness.
-
- Martin
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