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- From: mueller@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Carl Douglas Mueller)
- Subject: Re: Square root of a number
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.142932.25808@schaefer.math.wisc.edu>
- Reply-To: mueller@schaefer.UUCP (Carl Douglas Mueller)
- Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin Dept. of Mathematics
- References: <1992Nov15.194049.1@woods.ulowell.edu> <1992Nov18.114710.28333@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 14:29:32 GMT
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- >In article <1992Nov15.194049.1@woods.ulowell.edu> buxamusaa@woods.ulowell.edu writes:
- >>Please could someone help me with an assignment that I have to do.
- >>It is a very general question, though the answer could be quite lengthy.
- >>"Discuss methods for finding the square root of a number."
- >>What I am looking for are all possible methods/alogrithms for this.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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- There are MANY methods. For example to find the square root of x.
- 1) Pick a random number r.
- 2) Compute r*r.
- 3) if r*r <> x goto 1.
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- (OK, so this isn't an efficient method. It is a method. :-) )
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