I have been seeing many posts about different implementations of finding the square root of a number with regard to blockchain and there is an edit in this question: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/296102/fastest-square-root-algorithm referring to smart contract engineers. What exactly is their importance in blockchain and why is it so hard?
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It just happens to be a difficult mathematical operation to implement in an environment with certain restrictions, such as Ethereum smart contracts, which don't support floating point arithmetics (decimals).
So, as far as I can tell, it's not a super interesting or super essential function to have, but it just happens to be a function which is difficult to implement and has therefore open questions.
Furthermore, smart contracts require efficiency. The question you linked is specifically asking about efficient solutions.
answered Jul 7, 2022 at 7:56
