Hacker News with Generative AI: Approximation

Reciprocal Approximation with 1 Subtraction (ycombinator.com)
Today's find: You can get a floating-point approximation of 1/x that's accurate to 3 bits with a single integer subtraction instruction.
A joke in approximating numbers raised to irrational powers (andreinc.net)
A joke in approximating numbers raised to irrational powers