Archive for January, 2008

Quake3’s fast invSqrt()

Here’s a post to get this blog started.
In class we’ve been talking about root finding schemes such as the Bisection method, Newton’s method, etc., and how they can be used to evaluate functions such as sqrt(), invSqrt(), etc. That’s fine, but what would you use if you wanted a really fast implementation of […]

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Welcome to CS 322 (Spring 2008)

Welcome to the course blog for CS 322 “Introduction to Scientific Computing!” This course covers a wide variety of scientific computing concepts and numerical methods, and, through this blog, we will establish some of their connections to the real world. Topics should be interesting and related to numerical computing in some way. Posts […]

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