My bad.... but it can be made recursive :)

On Aug 9, 8:17 pm, Dave <[email protected]> wrote:
> @Ankuj: Yeah, but he asked for it to be recursive. Yours is iterative.
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> On Aug 9, 9:56 am, Ankuj Gupta <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > we can do it in logn by using binary search approach found
> > n is the number whose square root has to be
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> >         if(n==1)
> >                 return 1;
> >         if(n==0)
> >                 return 0;
> >         int low=0,high=n/2,mid,temp;
> >         while(1)
> >         {
> >                 mid = (low+high)/2;
> >                 temp = mid*mid;
> >                 if(temp==n)
> >                         return 1;
> >                 else if(temp <n)
> >                         low = mid+1;
> >                 else
> >                         high = mid-1;
> >                 if(low == mid || high == mid)
> >                         return 0;
> >         }
> > at the end high will have the required square root if not perfect
> > square or if perfect square mid will have the required answer

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