[Haskell-beginners] Square root algorithm

[yi lu]

I don't know why this email was marked as spam, but it could be worth
discussing.

On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 4:22 PM, mike h <mike_k_houghton at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> To help me in learning Haskell I started blogging about some of the things
> I’ve looked at.
> One such topic was calculating square roots ‘by hand’ and then deriving a
> Haskell algorithm.
> I wrote about the well known  technique here
> http://gitcommit.co.uk/2017/08/25/the-root-of-the-problem-part-1/
>
> and it it is really quite a simple method.
>
> The second part of the post will be an implementation in Haskell.
>
> I then tried implementing it  and got something that works but really its
> not very pleasant to look at! And its something I don’t want to post! Some
> parts are fine but I think I locked myself into the notion that it had to
> be using State and  really the end result is pretty poor.
>
> I know this i perhaps a ‘big ask’ but I’d really appreciate any
> suggestions, solutions, hints etc. I will of course give full attribution.
>
> I’ve created a gist of the code here
> https://gist.github.com/banditpig
>
> Many Thanks
>
> Mike
>
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