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Goplat



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Goplat 30 Aug 2011, 15:14
If all you're doing is checking the low 8 bits, how can your function know that 100h is a square and 200h is not?
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magicSqr 30 Aug 2011, 15:36
Hi Goplat,

If you check back to the OP, you'll see it started with me asking if using the FPU was the quickest way of checking if a number was square. It turns out it isn't as the FPU is slower than the CPU.

What DJ's algo does is weed out a lot of numbers that aren't square, so only the remaining ones need to be run through the FPU for a definitive check.

For the numbers 0 to 1000, the algo dismisses 827 of them, leaving only 173 to be put through the FPU Very Happy

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DJ Mauretto 30 Aug 2011, 17:37
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If all you're doing is checking the low 8 bits, how can your function know that 100h is a square and 200h is not?


You are right this algo is bad Wink

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What DJ's algo does is weed out a lot of numbers that aren't square, so only the remaing ones need to be run through the FPU for a definitive check.


Note this is not my algo, it is from wikipedia, i don't have check it
I'm not interested in the perfect square Razz

Wiki says:

In base 16, a square number can end only with 0,1,4 or 9 and
- in case 0, only 0,1,4,9 can precede it,
- in case 4, only even numbers can precede it.

I wrote this algo , but it's bad Razz Razz Razz

Let you to write a decent algo Rolling Eyes

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magicSqr 30 Aug 2011, 18:57
Hi DJ,

For a quickly thrown together code it's actually not bad Very Happy

It cuts processing time by approx 33% Wink

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DJ Mauretto 31 Aug 2011, 06:03
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Hi DJ,

For a quickly thrown together code it's actually not bad

It cuts processing time by approx 33%


Certainly, but what wiki says is false,
the algo don't work for many numbers, perhaps I did not understand the algo.
200h = 512 , it ends with zero preceded by another zero
then it should be a perfect square but it is not '.
Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes

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ouadji 31 Aug 2011, 07:33
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@DJ Mauretto

200h = 512 , it ends with zero preceded by another zero
then it should be a perfect square but it is not '.
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In base 16, a square number can end only with 0,1,4 or 9 and
- in case 0, only 0,1,4,9 can precede it,

my English is very bad, but "wiki" says "in case 0, only 0,1,4,9 CAN precede it".
A number that ends with 00 can be a perfect square ... and not ... is a perfect square. It's a possibility, not a certainty.

Or maybe my English is even worse than it is. Wink

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DJ Mauretto 31 Aug 2011, 08:08
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my English is very bad, but "wiki" says "in case 0, only 0,1,4,9 CAN precede it".
A number that ends with 00 can be a perfect square ... and not ... is a perfect square. It's a possibility, not a certainty.


I don't understand Rolling Eyes
Anyway i'm happy for you if you understand it Wink

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edfed 31 Aug 2011, 10:06
Code:
mov [x],????
call testsquare
cmp eax,1
jne notsquare
...
testsquare:
if x=(sqrt(x))²
then return 1
else return 0
end if
    

asm powaaa!! Laughing
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ouadji 31 Aug 2011, 10:37

@DJ Mauretto

I just thought that it could be a distraction. This can happen ...
i was just surprised by your answer, nothing else.

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DJ Mauretto 31 Aug 2011, 12:29
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A number that ends with 00 can be a perfect square ... and not ... is a perfect square


In base 16, a square number can end only with 0,1,4 or 9 and
- in case 0, only 0,1,4,9 can precede it,
- in case 4, only even numbers can precede it.

Where it is written 'Can be a perfect square ... and not ... is a perfect square ?

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Madis731 31 Aug 2011, 15:08
Maybe somebody can prove it, but for every number, N, that is a perfect square, there is a number 2*N, that is not.

Some examples: 1024^.5=32, whereas 2048^.5=45,25...
4294967296^.5=65536, but 8589934592^.5=92681,90...

These examples all end in multiple zeroes in base 16. Perfect squares therefore cannot be evaluated in constant time.

Lets call it a "theorem".
I found out that every time you multiply a perfect square with a prime, you'll effectively make it not perfect... hmm... needs investigation.
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magicSqr 31 Aug 2011, 16:48
if N is a perfect square, then there is an integer u such that

N = u²

It follows that if 2N is also a square, then 2N = 2u²

It's root will be u * sqrt(2)

Any integer * sqrt(2) cannot be an integer. QED Very Happy
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DJ Mauretto 31 Aug 2011, 17:09
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Maybe somebody can prove it, but for every number, N, that is a perfect square, there is a number 2*N, that is not.


Right man Wink

The algo on wiki is crap Razz

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ouadji 31 Aug 2011, 19:47
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@DJ Mauretto
Where it is written 'Can be a perfect square ... and not ... is a perfect square ?

a - In base 16, a square number can end only with 0,1,4 or 9
b - in case 0, only 0,1,4,9 can precede it,
c - in case 4, only even numbers can precede it.

d - A number that ends with 00 can be a perfect square,
and not ... is a perfect square

This is written nowhere, it's just a logical deduction a+b => d

in other words,in base 16, a number that ends with "00" can be a perfect square ... but, in base 16, all numbers ending with 00 are not necessarily perfect squares.


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r22 31 Aug 2011, 19:52
This is silly. The quickest way is to use SSE

- Convert integer to double FP CVTSI2SD
- Find the square root SQRTSD
- Floor ROUNDSD
- Square MULSD
- Convert double FP to integer CVTTSD2SI
- Compare with original CMP

6 instructions
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magicSqr 31 Aug 2011, 19:59
r22

That's what I originally thought. Having tested DJ's unoptimized algo against straight checking wiith FPU, it is actually reduces checking time by about 33%.

Not sure about SSE though, I'll have to read up on it Very Happy

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revolution 31 Aug 2011, 20:19
r22 wrote:
6 instructions
Merely counting instructions is not a way to predict the speed of execution. The SSE SQRT is just as slow as the FPU SQRT, both will use the same internal circuitry to do the computation.
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magicSqr 31 Aug 2011, 20:23
OK, thanks for that revolution Wink
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revolution 31 Aug 2011, 20:46
Madis731 wrote:
Maybe somebody can prove it, but for every number, N, that is a perfect square, there is a number 2*N, that is not.
Looks to be easy to prove.

N (our perfect square) = m * m

2N = 2 * m * m

sqrt(2N) = sqrt(2 * m * m) = sqrt(2) * m

sqrt(2) is proven irrational so sqrt(2) * m can never be a perfect square no matter what integer you choose for m (disregarding the degenerate case of m=0).
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magicSqr 31 Aug 2011, 20:51
ya must've missed my

N = u²

post then Very Happy
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