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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.