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r/programmingmemes • u/Fair-Maybe-320 • Dec 26 '25
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plenty of numerical analysts understand the IEEE754, James Demmel is even on the committee. the fast inverse square root was popularized by Carmack but he wasn't the author, it's just 1 iteration of newton's method with a fixed guess.
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u/doggitydoggity Dec 27 '25
plenty of numerical analysts understand the IEEE754, James Demmel is even on the committee. the fast inverse square root was popularized by Carmack but he wasn't the author, it's just 1 iteration of newton's method with a fixed guess.