Guess I better start putting my name on my code!
But I have to say this is really cool. For instance I was reading
about a fast inverse square root method that uses the magic number:
0x5f3759df
which was improved by Chris Lamont to use the number:
0x5f375a86
both of which reveal a whole set of interesting mathematics/computer
graphics code libraries.
And ironically also brought up the slashdot (juveniles) initial
search, on "fuck" which ultimately leads to the most reassuring
comments in source code: "Shit happens" .
For those interested the method is used in a processing library for
particle physics:
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/%7Etraer/physics/paper here:
http://www.lomont.org/Math/Papers/2003/InvSqrt.pdf--joshua
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