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We prove an OMEGA(loglog(1/epsilon)) lower bound on the depth of any
computation tree and any RAM program with operations
{+,−,∗,/,leftfloorcdotrightfloor,not,and,or,xor}, unlimited
power of answering YES/NO questions, and constants {0,1} that computes
sqrtx to accuracy epsilon, for all $x (mo $ [1,2]. Since Newton
method achieves such an accuracy in O(loglog(1/epsilon)) depth,
our bound is tight.