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Author Re: S/360 HER, HDR
robin

2006-01-10, 3:59 am

"glen herrmannsfeldt" <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote in message
news:qeednYOF5PpZRiHeRVn-qg@comcast.com...
> robin wrote:
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> Someone claimed that they were originally to speed up square root,
> and I don't remember ever seeing them used anywhere else.


Once post-normalization was fixed, they would have been useful
anywhere, especially for optimization, but I see no impediment
for them not being used for even low optimization. Their
particular attractiveness being, of course, speed..

> It does
> seem that they could be useful, though.



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