From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: Fun with Unbounded Rational Numbers
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2017 12:05:42 +0200
Date: 2017-04-09T12:05:42+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ocd0rv$jro$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zifq831u.fsf@nightsong.com>
On 04/09/2017 09:15 AM, Paul Rubin wrote:
> M := Two * X;
> Y = X * X - 2 -- <---- this might have been missing?
> X := X - Y / M;
Further investigation shows that the slow operation is the subtraction of R=2 in
Y := X ** 2 - R;
for X=665857/470832 (X**2=443365544449/221682772224≈2.00000000000451095044494277).
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Jeff Carter
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2017-04-08 10:37 Fun with Unbounded Rational Numbers Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-04-08 11:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-04-08 14:14 ` Robert Eachus
2017-04-09 0:30 ` antispam
2017-04-09 8:47 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-04-09 19:25 ` antispam
2017-04-10 17:18 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-04-11 21:39 ` antispam
2017-04-09 7:15 ` Paul Rubin
2017-04-09 8:56 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-04-09 21:18 ` Paul Rubin
2017-04-10 17:08 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-04-10 19:39 ` Paul Rubin
2017-04-09 10:05 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
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