package Searches; import java.util.Scanner; /** * 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 class SquareRootBinarySearch { /** * This is the driver method. * * @param args Command line arguments */ public static void main(String args[]) { Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in); System.out.print("Enter a number you want to calculate square root of : "); int num = sc.nextInt(); long ans = squareRoot(num); System.out.println("The square root is : " + ans); } /** * 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 */ private 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; } }