I love this and I am horrified at the breadth and depth of the computer history that is being lost to time every day. Yacht handicapping!
I love this and I am horrified at the breadth and depth of the computer history that is being lost to time every day. Yacht handicapping!
I have not read the article but I remember the algorithm for reverse square root (could be wrong) in the old Quake games has had it’s history forgotten. The field of CS does not keep good records it seems lol.
You mean squaring?
I was wrong on the name. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root
Inverse, reverse, close enough XD.
Right yeah, that makes sense haha