Two Stop Bits | Stories tagged "mathematics"

Pi in the Pentium: reverse-engineering the constants in its floating-point unit (mathematics pi pentium reversing floating point extraction) (righto.com)
1 point by bmonkey325 123 days ago | discuss
Mandelbrot Set renderer for MSDOS (1990s msdos 8086 mathematics 16bit x86 turbo) (github.com | ia)
6 points by ms0g 236 days ago | 5 comments
A tale of two spigots - more digits of pi, and faster (6502 acorn bbc mathematics) (stardot.org.uk)
4 points by Screwtapello 322 days ago | discuss
Everything I Know About The Fast Inverse Square Root Algorithm (quake3 carmack algorithm optimization mathematics) (github.com)
6 points by bmonkey325 341 days ago | 1 comment