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Who discovered the hexadecimal constant "0x5f3759df"?
And how was it discovered?
It to be used in fast inverse square root algorithm.
PS: I have been through the wiki and other sources , but still no perfect answer to "Who and How ".
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Vivek Nagarajan
, Programmer for 25 years
Answered Mar 6, 2014
I think it was Chris Hecker or John Carmack
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