>> - If equal then it is sought-for square root, if not
>> repeat with the last pair of values as last average
>> and its square.
>
> That's a long winded way of saying to calculate the
> square root iteratively each sample. =A0Yes, that's
> probably a good approach.

No, that was an attempt to say that there is a method that takes much
less than 80 operations. I could imagine tons of methods "to calculate
the square root iteratively each sample" in the declared 80+
operations.


> Yes, that's probably a good approach.

Nothing probabilistic here, That's just a good approach. Don't you
mind we will refer to this method (aren't we on PicList?) as "Newton's
method"?  :-) The guy did great job.

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