Re: Testing for squares
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- Subject: [mg66260] Re: Testing for squares
- From: "Julian Aguirre" <julian.aguirre at ehu.es>
- Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 01:54:31 -0400 (EDT)
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Ray,
Thank you for your message. However, most of the integers I need to
test are not machine size, and test2 reverts to the uncompiled code.
Julián
Ray Koopman wrote:
> In[1]:= test1 = IntegerQ[Sqrt[#]]&;
> test2 = Compile[{{n,_Integer}},Round[Sqrt[N[n]]]^2 === n];
> v = Range[123456];
> Timing[a = test1/@v;]
> Timing[b = test2/@v;]
> a === b
>
> Out[4]= {3.49 Second,Null}
> Out[5]= {0.34 Second,Null}
> Out[6]= True
>
> Julian Aguirre wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > 1) I would like to have an efficient test to decide if an integer is a
> > square.
> >
> > test1 = IntegerQ[Sqrt[#]]&
> >
> > is too slow for my needs. I am using something like
> >
> > test2 = Positive[#] && JacobiSymbol[#, p] && Sqrt[Round[N[#,
> > precission]]]^2==# &
> >
> > where p is a prime (or I may use several primes). However test2 may
> > return False for very large integers. How large depends on the value of
> > precission. Do you know of a faster test?
> >
> > Thanks for any help,
> >
> > Julián Aguirre