Eliot Miranda uploaded a new version of Kernel to project Spur:
http://source.squeak.org/spur/Kernel-nice.843.mcz==================== Summary ====================
Name: Kernel-nice.843
Author: eem
Time: 10 May 2014, 3:17:03.03 pm
UUID: c64204a7-6b8c-46ca-8f22-75808e3cf017
Ancestors: Kernel-nice.843
Kernel-nice.843 patched for Spur by SpurBootstrapMonticelloPackagePatcher Cog-eem.150
Correct the bug I introduced for large integer sqrtFloor.
If receiver was of the form 2^2n*u
we did answer 2^n *E(sqrt(u))
But sqrt(u) = E(sqrt(u)) + residue
where 0<=residue<1
And result is rather
E(2^n*sqrt(u))
= E( 2^n*(E(sqrt(u)) + residue))
= 2^n*E(sqrt(u)) + E(2^n*residue)
As 2^n * residue can be big (superior to 1), we miss the correct value by default.
If we want to correct this, an approximation of residue is (u-E(sqrt(u))^2) / 2 E(sqrt(u))
This is more or less like super Newton-Raphson inner loop...
It would be possible to duplicate super work, but I feel like it's adding too much complexity for small reward, so I prefer to remove offending code for now
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