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Implement sqrt for BigInt and BigUint #51

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Related to #3.

I needed to calculate square root of a big integer in the project I'm working on, so I thought maybe this can be useful to others as well.

This PR adds sqrt() method for calculating square root of a non-negative integer to BigInt and BigUint types. Square root is obtained via Newton's method, with a reasonable initial guess to improve performance.

Benchmark is included, although I had to replace the implementation of StdRng with ThreadRng in order to be able to run it.

This commit adds sqrt method for calculating square root of a
non-negative integer to BigInt and BigUint types. Square root
is obtained via Newton's method with a good initial guess to
improve performance. Tests and benchmark were also added.

Signed-off-by: Manca Bizjak <[email protected]>
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cuviper commented May 30, 2018

Benchmark is included, although I had to replace the implementation of StdRng with ThreadRng in order to be able to run it.

Ah, sorry, I didn't update the benchmarks for the new rand. I'll do a separate PR to clean that up.

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This will be nice to have, although I think I'd still like it to be a generic method of Integer, which we'd then optimize here. I had a branch I was toying with somewhere -- let me see if I can get that on num-integer.

src/biguint.rs Outdated
loop {
s = u;
let q = self.div_floor(&s);
let t: BigUint = &s + &q;
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We don't need q after this, so adding &s + q by value will let it reuse that memory allocation.

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Indeed, fixed.

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let t: BigUint = &s + &q;

// Compute the candidate value for next iteration
u = t.div_floor(&two);
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Any reason you're using div_floor instead of the / operator? With the operator you can also use integer literals, like t / 2u32. But even more, t >> 1 is probably faster.

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No reason whatsoever, it just slipped my mind it seems. I replaced the usage of div_floor with the / and >> operators as appropriate, and also replaced the lsh call with <<. Looks much cleaner now.

This commit cleans up implementation of the sqrt method on the
BigUint type. Method calls of div_floor and lsh were also replaced
with overloaded operators.

Signed-off-by: Manca Bizjak <[email protected]>
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cuviper commented Jul 6, 2018

So, I've add a new Roots trait, with sqrt, cbrt, and nth_root, which I'd like to get implemented for num-bigint. Are you interested in doing this? If not, I'll just merge your PR and then add Roots separately. We can either keep the inherent methods that then call Roots or vice versa, to let users call the methods without importing the trait.

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Great, I'd be happy to. I already have a draft for the nth_root implementation but it needs a little polishing. Hopefully I'll have everything ready some time the following week.

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Closing in favor of #56.

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56: Implement Roots for BigInt and BigUint r=cuviper a=mancabizjak

Supersedes #51 .

Since there is now a `Roots` trait with `sqrt`, `cbrt` and `nth_root` methods in the `num-integer` crate, this PR implements it for `BigInt` and `BigUint` types. I also added inherent methods on both types to allow the users access to all these functions without having to import `Roots`.

PS: `nth_root` currently  uses `num_traits::pow`. Should we perhaps wait for #54 to get merged, and then replace the call to use the new `pow::Pow` implementation on `BigUint`?

Co-authored-by: Manca Bizjak <[email protected]>
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