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Re: A85: More questions
i'm working in writing the assembler code for this. i basically have it
done, all i need is some documentation on using 32 bit numbers and
decimals. if anyone has this i would appreciate it.
Keith Batten
Erik L Gillespie wrote:
> (You want to take the square root of X)
>
> GUESS = X / 2
> DO
> GUESS = (GUESS + X / GUESS) / 2
> WHILE ABS(GUESS * GUESS - X) > 1.0E-9
>
> A few things to remember here are to remember order of operations,
> anything divided by two can have a bitwise shift to the right for the
> same value (not decimals), and the 1.0E-9 is how many places
> approximation behind the decimal the solution will be (sp?).
>
> If anyone ever decides to make the assembly routine for a square root
> function, I'd like to have it (source code).
>
> Mordant
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> erik_gillespie_1096@gwgate.kvcc.edu
>
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