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by xaphod 1191 days ago
I wonder what model this site is using. FWIW I tried with ChatGPT (both GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 versions), and it does a better job (tried multiple times). On one attempt it even said the Floor name is misleading:

The given code is a C-style implementation of the "fast inverse square root" algorithm. This algorithm computes an approximation of the inverse square root of a given number (1/sqrt(x)). The code does not actually compute the floor of a floating-point number, so the function name "Floor" is misleading.