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Fast Inverse Square Root - Quake III
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float fisr(float n){ | |
long x = 0x5f3759df - (*(long *)&n >> 1); //magic number = 1.5*2^23*(127-mu); mu represents log(1+x)=x+mu; mu=0.0450465 | |
float y = *(float *)&x; // Solution from bit manipulation | |
y = 1.5F*y - 0.5F*n*y*y*y; // Newton improvement 1 | |
y = 1.5F*y - 0.5F*n*y*y*y; // Newton improvement 2 | |
return y; | |
} |
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