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Re: Challenge: optimizing isqrt

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Am 01.11.14 09:13, schrieb Chris Angelico:
> On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Your above algorithm is obviously doing Heron- or Newton-Raphson iterations,
>> so the same as with floating point math. The first line before the while
>> loop computes some approximation to sqrt(n). Instead of doing bit shuffling,
>> you could compute this by FP math and get closer to the desired result,
>> unless the integer is too large to be represented by FP. Now, the
>> terminating condition seems to rely on the fact that the initial estimate
>> x>=sqrt(n), but I don't really understand it. My guess is that if you do
>> x=int(sqrt(n)), then do the first iteration, then swap x and y such that
>> x>y, then enter the loop, you would simply start with a better estimate in
>> case that the significant bits can be represented by the float.
>
> Part of the point of that algorithm is that it never uses FP, and is
> therefore not limited by FP restrictions.

which are???

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Challenge: optimizing isqrt Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-11-01 12:29 +1100
  Re: Challenge: optimizing isqrt Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-01 13:12 +1100
  Re: Challenge: optimizing isqrt Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2014-11-01 09:02 +0100
    Re: Challenge: optimizing isqrt Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2014-11-01 09:09 +0100
    Re: Challenge: optimizing isqrt Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-01 19:13 +1100
      Re: Challenge: optimizing isqrt Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2014-11-01 09:25 +0100
        Re: Challenge: optimizing isqrt Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-01 19:33 +1100
          Re: Challenge: optimizing isqrt Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2014-11-01 09:38 +0100
            Re: Challenge: optimizing isqrt Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-01 19:45 +1100
  Re: Challenge: optimizing isqrt Akira Li <4kir4.1i@gmail.com> - 2014-11-01 12:12 +0300
  Re: Challenge: optimizing isqrt Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2014-11-20 20:00 +0200
  Re: Challenge: optimizing isqrt Stephen Tucker <stephen_tucker@sil.org> - 2014-11-21 08:15 +0000
  Re: Challenge: optimizing isqrt Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-11-23 10:43 -0500
  Re: Challenge: optimizing isqrt Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2014-11-25 21:31 +0200
  Re: Challenge: optimizing isqrt Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-11-25 19:46 -0500
  Re: Challenge: optimizing isqrt Stephen Tucker <stephen_tucker@sil.org> - 2014-11-26 07:57 +0000
    Re: Challenge: optimizing isqrt Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-11-26 21:25 +1100
  Re: Challenge: optimizing isqrt Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2014-11-26 18:24 +0200

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