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Re:One does not simply calculate the absolute value by colejohnson66 on Sunday August 22, 2021 @07:42PM (#28270822)
> The bits of a float as an integer literal are proportional to its log2 value (plus a constant), …

I watched a video[0] a while back about that. Once that coincidence(?) was explained, Q_rsqrt finally made sense.

[0]: https://youtu.be/p8u_k2LIZyo (~20 minutes)

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