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Re: another baby step - namespace adjustments
- From: kaih at khms dot westfalen dot de (Kai Henningsen)
- To: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 22 Jul 2003 20:51:00 +0200
- Subject: Re: another baby step - namespace adjustments
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roger@eyesopen.com (Roger Sayle) wrote on 21.07.03 in <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307211905280.30103-100000@www.eyesopen.com>:
> This function is an extremely poor approximation to sqrt found
> by a very slow algorithm.
Are you sure about that? This looks like Newton's method, which is
anything but slow and produces approximations as close as you like.
(IANA numerics guru.)
MfG Kai