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nyeah
50 days ago
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Three Hundred Years Later, a Tool from Isaac Newto...
I wish we could call the Quake algorithm "fast reciprocal square root". But it's far too late now.
lupire
50 days ago
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"reciprocal" and "inverse" (and "opposite") are synonyms, but have taken on a different connotations in math.
nyeah
42 days ago
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I don't think they're quite synonyms. In math they denote two different things. The reciprocal of f(x) = y is g(x) = 1/y. The inverse of f(x)=y is g(y) = x.
https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/reciprocal
https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/inverse
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