A recent post on SO Meta mentioned this:
[...] we are in the early exploration phase of:
[...]
making it possible to label individual answers with technology versions — for example, [python-v2] vs. [python-v3].
I think this feature could be beneficial to other sites on SE. As a Code Golf regu...
Fast Inverse Square Root //evil floating point bit level hacking
Introduction
The fast inverse square root algorithm is a function developed in C for Quake III. It was at the time the fastest way to compute the inverse square root of a function, which is needed for most vector operations.
The co...
Introduction
The fast inverse square root algorithm is a function developed in C for Quake III. It was at the time the fastest way to compute the inverse square root of a function, which is needed for most vector operations.
The code as written in 1999, from the quake 3 source, is as follows:
fl...
Back when I was new to Code Golf SE (then PPCG), a lot of my questions didn't do too well, and I didn't have the experience to tell whether they were good challenged or not. As such, I would often blame it on anything I could, like post time.
A few years later, I've started to wonder about wheth...
