package com.thealgorithms.searches; /** * Given an integer x, find the square root of x. If x is not a perfect square, * then return floor(√x). *
* For example, if x = 5, The answer should be 2 which is the floor value of √5. *
* The approach that will be used for solving the above problem is not going to * be a straight forward Math.sqrt(). Instead we will be using Binary Search to * find the square root of a number in the most optimised way. * * @author sahil */ public final class SquareRootBinarySearch { private SquareRootBinarySearch() { } /** * This function calculates the floor of square root of a number. We use * Binary Search algorithm to calculate the square root in a more optimised * way. * * @param num Number * @return answer */ static long squareRoot(long num) { if (num == 0 || num == 1) { return num; } long l = 1; long r = num; long ans = 0; while (l <= r) { long mid = l + (r - l) / 2; if (mid == num / mid) { return mid; } else if (mid < num / mid) { ans = mid; l = mid + 1; } else { r = mid - 1; } } return ans; } }