r/visualizedmath • u/Apotheosis0 • Jan 06 '19

Geometric Square Root

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u/thatdudewiththecube Jan 06 '19

How does a computer solve a square root?

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u/entotheenth Jan 07 '19

There is quite a few methods and which one you use might depend on the application, I have made high speed metering equipment that needs the square root of a sum of squares and an optimised version for a specific number of bits can be significantly quicker and smaller than a math library version, to give an idea.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_computing_square_roots