Fast Square Root (All integer?)

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From: Rick Wagner
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:39

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Does anyone have any ideas (or code) on how to implement a FAST square root 
algorythm in C that only uses integers?  Obviously this only needs to be 
an approximation of the square root, the key factor here is speed.

Any Ideas?

Rick Wagner
wagner@main.mndly.umn.edu

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