Write a Square Root function for a computer without floating point calculations
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Anonym
24. Aug. 2012
Use the babylonian method
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_computing_square_roots#Babylonian_method
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Anonym
18. Aug. 2012
Use fractions (=2 integers) and the Babylonian/Newtonian approach:
X(n+1) = (X(n)^2 + N) / (2 * X(n))
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Anonym
6. Aug. 2012
Perhaps using binary search will work.
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Anonym
8. Aug. 2012
By approximation.
Star with a = 1 and check if a*a is > N. If so you return a-1 else a++ and move forward.
The fact that here we cannot use the floating point calculation makes everything trivial and not much accurate.
Anyway convert this strategy into an accurate one using floating point it's easy as well.