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by pclmulqdq 741 days ago
Intel provides bit-accurate code. In older chips it used a faithful bipartite ROM:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120124193536id_/http://www.acs...

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I don't recall the coprocessor having either reciprocal or reciprocal square root? I didn't do much Intel until later in my career though, so I might be missing something though.

Both _mm_rcp_ps (rcpps) and _mm_rsqrt_ps (rsqrtps) are only good for about half the bits.