Talk:Square root algorithms: Difference between revisions

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:::Simply applying various root-finding algorithms in the case of the square-root does not (to my way of thinking) add anything not already in those articles. At most, we could mention that they can be so applied. [[User:JRSpriggs|JRSpriggs]] ([[User talk:JRSpriggs|talk]]) 14:58, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

:::: It's hard to know what's OR and what isn't as the article is so lacking in references. The [[Methods of computing square roots#Digit-by-digit calculation|digit-by-digit method]] given is perhaps a fairly well-known one (taught to me long before WP existed), so clearly isn't OR, but there's no indication of its name or origin, and no references have been given for the method. I would imagine that whoever added it to WP was recalling it from memory. I'll see what I can find for this one when I've a bit more time. — [[User:Smjg|Smjg]] ([[User talk:Smjg|talk]]) 11:22, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

== Fast inverse square root attribution ==