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As a young programmer, I would have also written the the function name "Q_rsqrt".

As an old programmer, I would write "FastInverseSquareRoot()".

It took a looong time for the penchant to write identifiers adhering to the FORTRAN limit of 6 characters to fade away.

(Yes, I know Q_rsqrt is 7.)



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