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Re: guile & r5rs




> The old favourite, Newton's iterative square root looks like:

Right; but you've totally skipped the interesting part.  It has to
work in bignum arithmetic only.  We don't have rationals.  And
we know exactly how much precision we need: we're looking for the
integer closest to the true square root.