Re: guile & r5rs

[Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com>]

> Here's the kind of thing I was thinking of.  This is just off the top
> of my head, so there are probably much better ways of doing these
> things that maybe a numerical analyst on this list could suggest, but
> here's a start:

Yeesh.  The algorithm I posted runs in a constant number of bignum
ops, and lets you specify an exact lower bound on the number of bits
of precision you get.

What I could really use is a good bignum sqrt algorithm.