Title
A tight bound for approximating the square root
Abstract
We prove an \Omega\Gamma/17 log(1=")) lower bound on the depth of any computation tree andany RAM program with operations f+; \Gamma; ; =; b\Deltac ; not; and; or; xorg, unlimited power ofanswering YES/NO questions, and constants f0; 1g that computespx to accuracy ", for allx 2 [1; 2]. Since Newton method achieves such an accuracy in O(log log(1=")) depth, ourbound is tight.1 IntroductionIn this paper consider the problem of approximating the square root of a given number upto...
Year
DOI
Venue
1997
10.1016/S0020-0190(97)00126-9
Inf. Process. Lett.
Keywords
Field
DocType
square root,newton method,lower bound
Log-log plot,Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Upper and lower bounds,Square root,Computation tree,Mathematics,Computational complexity theory,Newton's method
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
63
4
0020-0190
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
6
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nader H. Bshouty11171126.09
Yishay Mansour26211745.95
Baruch Schieber32647320.36
Prasoon Tiwari459296.81