Other Methods
Finding is the same as solving the equation . Therefore, any general numerical root-finding algorithm can be used. Newton's method, for example, reduces in this case to the Babylonian method. Other methods are less efficient than the ones presented above.
A completely different method for computing the square root is based on the CORDIC algorithm, which uses only very simple operations (addition, subtraction, bitshift and table lookup, but no multiplication).
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