W. B. Langdon
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CMA-ES plus manual code changes rapidly transforms 512 Newton-Raphson start points from a GNU C library table driven version of sqrt into a double precision reciprocal square root function. The GI x-1/2 is far more accurate than Quake's InvSqrt, Quare root.
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