There is a certain function

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There was a need to calculate the inverse function

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Now I think about the elegant and not too slow method of calculating x (y). What are my options?

  • I apologize, I believed the promises that the input of TeX markup is supported. @Barmaley, altered in clay tablets. - karmadro4
  • I do not understand - write the formula ... - Barmaley
  • @ karmadro4, This is a question for the Math forum. - Pavel S. Zaitsau
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    Damn, the kaput formulas have come again. @Pavel Zaitsev, lol, no. Do not worry, this matan is not so scary :-) - karmadro4
  • @ karmadro4, TeX markup is supported only on the "Mathematics" forum. - angry

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Standard recurrence ratio does not fit?

// x(n + 1) = 0.5*(x(n) + n / x(n)) scanf("%u", &test_number); x_new = test_number; x_old = 0; while (x_old != x_new) { x_old = x_new; x_new = (x_new + test_number / x_new) >> 1; } printf("%u\n", x_new);
  • Oh, Heron's formula! I'm experimenting with her right now. By the way, it converges much faster if you feed not with zero, but with a rough estimate. - karmadro4

If I understood correctly about natural numbers, then for 32-bit integers.

 unsigned int sqrt32(unsigned long n) { unsigned int c = 0x8000; unsigned int g = 0x8000; for(;;) { if(g*g > n) g ^= c; c >>= 1; if(c == 0) return g; g |= c; } }
  • An interesting approach, although I understood little :-) And the restriction of natural numbers allows us not to worry about whether there is an inverse function or not. - karmadro4
  • The algorithm is not mine, from the Internet. As far as I understand the software model of a piece of piece of iron. At least that's what the person who once developed iron said. - avp
  • Thanks, I will try to play with him and summarize for different bit depths. - karmadro4
  • Thanks, copied myself. - northerner

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