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Re:Revisiting the Fast Inverse Square Root – Is It Still Use... by nomel on Thursday April 20, 2023 @09:27PM (#35648793)
For IEE 754 [1] the last bit of the the mantissa [2] is also the last bit of the binary representation. So, changing it is results in the smallest possible change in the number.
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