Reputation: 921

Easiest way to find Square Root in Swift?

I have been trying to figure out how to programmatically find a square root of a number in Swift. I am looking for the simplest possible way to accomplish with as little code needed. I now this is probably fairly easy to accomplish, but can't figure out a way to do it.

Upvotes: 25

Answers (6)

user15057879

Reputation: 21

func sqrt(num:Int)-> Double {
    var x1:Double = (Double(num) * 1.0) / 2; 
    var x2:Double = (x1 + (Double(num) / x1)) / 2; 
    while(abs(x1 - x2) >= 0.0000001){
        x1 = x2; 
        x2 = (x1 + (Double(num) / x1)) / 2;
        }
    return Double(x2);
  }
print(sqrt(num:2))

**output**
1.414


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Upvotes: 0

user12132075

Reputation:

this should work for any root, 2 - ∞, but you probably don't care:

func root(input: Double, base: Int = 2) -> Double {
    var output = 0.0
    var add = 0.0
    while add < 16.0 {
        while pow(output, base) <= input {
            output += pow(10.0, (-1.0 * add))
        }
        output -= pow(10.0, (-1.0 * add))
        add += 1.0
    }
    return output + 0.0
}

Upvotes: 1

Eddy Ekofo

Reputation: 591

First import import UIKit

let result = sqrt(25) // equals to 5

Then your result should be on the "result" variable

Upvotes: 6

Paul Buis

Reputation: 815

In Swift 3, the FloatingPoint protocol appears to have a squareRoot() method. Both Float and Double conform to the FloatingPoint protocol. So:

let x = 4.0
let y = x.squareRoot()

is about as simple as it gets.

The underlying generated code should be a single x86 machine instruction, no jumping to the address of a function and then returning because this translates to an LLVM built-in in the intermediate code. So, this should be faster than invoking the C library's sqrt function, which really is a function and not just a macro for assembly code.

In Swift 3, you do not need to import anything to make this work.

Upvotes: 46