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Subject: Re: Challenge: optimizing isqrt
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On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Part of the point of that algorithm is that it never uses FP, and is
>> therefore not limited by FP restrictions.
>
>
> which are???

Most notably, the inability to represent every integer beyond 2**53,
and the inability to represent any integer beyond 2**1024. This
algorithm should work fine with any positive integer.

ChrisA