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The magic number that gives you the first approximation for the Newton Raphson method for finding the inverse square root of number.

The code is more than 15 years old but came to light when Quake 3D released its Doom III source code to public.

The code has been associated to John Carmack, Gary Tarolli and others but the origin of this number remains a mystery


float InvSqrt (float x){
float xhalf = 0.5f*x;
int i = *(int*)&x;
i = 0x5f3759df - (i>>1);
x = *(float*)&i;
x = x*(1.5f - xhalf*x*x);
return x;
}


I am a good user of Google for all my queries from code to any interesting topic. Never I had thought that i would move to any other search. But this one, Krugle has made me do so. No, it is not from google. Its exclusively for searching codes, tech topics an projects, most of which are open source. Yes, this search engine searches all the open source CVS repositories from sourceforge.net to apache etc. and gets you the code snippets that you can refer to. But be aware that these codes are under GPL, or LGPL or apache licences. So u have to follow those licenses which is not always suitable for commercial development. However it can be a grat learning resource for students and developers entering new domain. Open source code are the most scrutinised code and learning from those code will be a good start for any student. One nice feature of this is that when you click a search result, a new tab opens in the same page with the content of the link, so you do not have to move between pages for the search result and the actual pages.

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While google has its personalized search where search results depends upon your searching patterns, its yet to deliver the goods. Social search,
introduced by Yahoo (http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com) and http://www.eurekster.com/ seems to accelerate this personalized search progress.

Social search does not depends on your profile but the profile of your friends and their search preferences. The yahoo My Web does exactly that by
allowing you to share your search indexes with your friends and peers. So a group of people with similar interests will always get better results for their
searches because some of them might already have searched it before. Also this reduces the number of search indexes to be searched
for relevancy. If you are on my web i can see your search preferences
and search with your recommendation. Also searches marked by people in
your group as relevant will be marked for you. You can also save your
search results and search pages online on yahoo MyWeb and your friends
will be shown those pages higher up in the search results.

But it depends on how honestly people mark pages and how good your network is. I recently clicked a link which had nothing what the user has written about. There should be a method to stop this abuse.

I dont know how far this will affect google's search power which is
purely machine based. but google has a habit of not letting out the
strategy until they release it. May be thats why they bought Irkutsk.
They did not buy your profile, they already have it, they bought your friend's profile.

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