Path: utzoo!yunexus!oz
From: oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: sqroot of a 2**n number ?
Message-ID: <1928@yunexus.UUCP>
Date: 13 May 89 21:56:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: yunexus.1928
References: <1906@yunexus.UUCP> <4890@umd5.umd.edu>
Reply-To: oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Organization: York U. Communications Research & Development
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In article <4890@umd5.umd.edu> setzer@wam.umd.edu writes:

>int sqrt_of_2_to_the_n(n)
>int n;
>{
>    return (1 << (n / 2));  /* integer division */
>}

Say what ?? (1 << (16 / 2) == 256 !!! I always thought sqrt(16) == 4.

oz
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