Re: Ada function sqrt(x)

[dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

Reposting article removed by rogue canceller.

I assume the integer square root problem was an assignment anyway, so
I am not about to provide the obvious answer, but Keith said

"You can convert the argument to a floating-point type, take the square
root, and convert back to an integer type, but that may lose precision
in some cases.  Also, I think an integer square root operation typically
truncates rather than rounding (for example, sqrt(99) is 9, not 10).
Ada 95 provides a 'Truncation attribute (see RM95-A.5.3) -- but again,
watch out for loss of precision (sqrt(9.0) *might* return something like
2.9999999; also, many 32-bit integers cannot be represented exactly in
32-bit floating-point)."

In fact, the square root of 9 must be exactly 3.
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