Perhaps you'd like to post the improved code? (provided, of course, that it satisfies the requirements of code found on the internet as per another thread :-)) >On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Scott Newell wrote: > > And don't forget that the sqrt routine chews up 3,000 some odd cycles, > for a poor aproximation, when the exact result can be gotten in less than > 200 cycles. > >> [...] >