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Re: reading NaNs


On Oct 24, 2005, at 3:32 PM, Aubrey Jaffer wrote:


;;;; integer-sqrt attributed to Bradley Lucier by Steve VanDevender.


I didn't invent this method, I got it from
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/lang/lisp/code/ math/isqrt/isqrt.txt 

as the thread in Google Groups shows.

This method is about half as fast as the method in

  ;; Derived from the paper "Karatsuba Square Root" by Paul Zimmermann,
  ;; INRIA technical report RR-3805, 1999.  (Used in gmp 4.*)
basically because Zimmermann's method's final divide is half the size of the final divide of the previous method. 

Brad