From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fedc2d05e82c9174 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran) Subject: Re: Calculating SQRT in ADA Date: 1999/03/26 Message-ID: <36fb3222.47966937@news.pacbell.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 459291858 References: <36F913E0.75F51763@lmco.com> <19990324125518.01416.00000432@ngol08.aol.com> <36F8C60D.26AA@ddre.dk> <36FAA3DF.42C31CF@lmco.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@pacbell.net X-Trace: typhoon-sf.pbi.net 922432438 206.170.2.37 (Thu, 25 Mar 1999 23:13:58 PDT) Organization: SBC Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 23:13:58 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-03-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: I found "Software Manual for the Elementary Functions", by Cody and Waite, ISBN 0-13-822064-6 quite helpful, though perhaps there's something newer out. As I recall, a fixed point 386 asm version with an initial estimate only needed something like a hard coded three or four iterations and was quite fast.