How to take the square root of an Ada Big_Real number? I don't see a sqrt function

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How to take the square root of an Ada GNAT Big_Real number? I don’t see a sqrt function listed and the “**” function takes on only integers for the exponent.

Thanks,
Retired Build Engineer

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FYI.

Replying to my own post…

I remembered (finally) about the Newton Method and could not remember the algorithm, looked it up and saw some examples (on Rosetta Code!) and now I have a Nth root for Big_Reals that’s good enough for me, but not good enough to “publish” to the world.

I probably should not post questions when I am tired, sleepy or irritable (well, in that case, I’d never post!) :slight_smile:

Retired Build Engineer

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Wow. Maybe you should submit that to gnat. :grin:

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Hmmm…it’s not THAT good. I guess it was so easy to do that they decided not to include it to inspire old people like me? :slight_smile: I think my sarcasm alert sensor is not accurate today…need to calibrate it somehow.