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On a fast integer square root algorithm

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The long-hand square root algorithm, when implemented in binary arithmetic, produces immediately the analytic result (as opposed to the successive approximations generated by the Newton-Raphson method). It also uses only addition, subtraction, and bits shifts; it is related to the binary integer division algorithm, but is in fact a simpler procedure.

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      cover image ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
      ACM SIGNUM Newsletter  Volume 22, Issue 4
      Oct. 1987
      10 pages
      ISSN:0163-5778
      DOI:10.1145/37523
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      Copyright © 1987 Author

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      Association for Computing Machinery

      New York, NY, United States

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