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Clarify the choice of rscale in numeric_sqrt().

Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>

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Commit: 0736fc1ceb0659a9f73699910ac56603336daeee
Author: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
Date: 2023-02-02T09:41:22Z
Releases: 16.0 
Clarify the choice of rscale in numeric_sqrt().

Improve the comment explaining the choice of rscale in numeric_sqrt(),
and ensure that the code works consistently when other values of
NBASE/DEC_DIGITS are used.

Note that, in practice, we always expect DEC_DIGITS == 4, and this
does not change the computation in that case.

Joel Jacobson and Dean Rasheed

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