Generating digits of square root of 2

Question

I want to generate the digits of the square root of two to 3 million digits.

I am aware of Newton-Raphson but I don\'t have much clue how to impleme

Answer 1

Here's a more efficient integer square root function (in Python 3.x) that should terminate in all cases. It starts with a number much closer to the square root, so it takes fewer steps. Note that int.bit_length requires Python 3.1+. Error checking left out for brevity.

def isqrt(n):
    x = (n >> n.bit_length() // 2) + 1
    result = (x + n // x) // 2
    while abs(result - x) > 1:
        x = result
        result = (x + n // x) // 2
    while result * result > n:
        result -= 1
    return result