[boost] Re: Meta-math

From: Tobias Schwinger (tschwinger_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-28 17:38:15

Jason Hise wrote:
> Sérgio Vale e Pace wrote:
> 
>>> Also, even when the difference of 1 is
>>> arrived at correctly, isn't it reasonable to assume that the lesser of
>>> the two numbers is the floor of the square root?
>>>   
>>
>>
>> try 4
>>
> ahh... alright, I see the problem.  So how about I just default X to N 
> instead of 1?
> 

You can start with X=(N-1)/2. This small adjustment came to my mind just 
after I sent my previous post. It saves you one recursion step.