Re: computation of square root & reciprocal calculation

And some more details:
you need to calculate the reciprocal of the square root "between 0 and
infinity".

- But divide by the zero is forbidden,
so the argument must be great than 0;
what the limit?

- what do you mean under "infinity": do you use floating point or fixed
point number representation?

- what the accuracy or word-length do you need?

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