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natly
1458 days ago
The 'inverse square root' carmack trick is hardly trivial.
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chii
1458 days ago
so luckily no one owns the idea that you can use both newtons method, and floating point bit-hacking, to produce a good estimate of a square root.
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SahAssar
1458 days ago
So if a similarly non-trivial piece of code was in a non-public-domain codebase and copilot copied that wholesale, then you'd have a problem with it?
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