On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Russell McMahon wrote:

> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:06:58 +1300
> From: Russell McMahon <apptech@clear.net.nz>
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: Floating point app notes
>
> Perhaps you'd like to post the improved code?

  sqrt routines were posted here before...  a few years ago.

> (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.
> >
> >> [...]
> >
>