Thursday Code Puzzler: Square Roots With A Twist
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Square Roots (With A Twist)
Write a function that calculates the square root of any number, but only uses basic arithmethic such as add, subtract, multiply and divide. Have Fun!
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ebenezer raj replied on Thu, 2012/12/06 - 8:59am
using q:
{{y-((y*y)-x)%2*y}[x] over 1}98 prints 9.8994949
{{y-((y*y)-x)%2*y}[x] over 1}25 prints 5
Daniel Seidler replied on Thu, 2012/12/06 - 10:22am
Kotlin
fun sqrt(x: Double): Double { var xn = (x / 2 + 0.5) 64.times{ xn = (xn + x / xn) / 2 } return xn }sun east replied on Fri, 2012/12/07 - 12:48am
Scala:
def sqrt(x: Double): Double = Iterator.iterate(1.0){ r => (r+x/r)/2 }.drop(100).next