ni...@lysator.liu.se (Niels Möller) writes:

  Hmm, but if we shift to make the *root* normalized, that also means that
  the input will always be an even number of limbs. Not entirely sure
  that's good, in particular for smallish sizes. But it ought to simplify
  some things.
  
I've seen code along these lines somewhere:  :-)

if (BELOW_THRESHOLD (n, NISSE_SQRT_THREASHOLD)
  sqrt_basecase (...);
else
  {
    count_leading_zeros (cnt, ...);
    mpn_lshift (..., cnt);
    sqrt_nisse (...);
  }

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