Write a Square Root function for a computer without floating point calculations
Risposte di colloquio
Anonimo
24 ago 2012
Use the babylonian method
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_computing_square_roots#Babylonian_method
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Anonimo
18 ago 2012
Use fractions (=2 integers) and the Babylonian/Newtonian approach:
X(n+1) = (X(n)^2 + N) / (2 * X(n))
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Anonimo
6 ago 2012
Perhaps using binary search will work.
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Anonimo
8 ago 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.