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nicholassmith
on Aug 28, 2013
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What is a magic number, and why is it bad?
I'd have personally thought the number used in the fast inverse square root (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root
) would qualify as a 'magic number', everything else is just a hardcoded value.
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