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Comment by groundzeros2015

9 hours ago

What do you mean brute force?

We can compute these things using iteration or polynomial approximations (sufficient for 64 bit).

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fatih-erikli-cg  6 hours ago

There is a loop of is it close enough or not something like that. It is a brute force. Atan2 purely looks like that to me.

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