Guess I better start putting my name on my code!

But I have to say this is really cool.  For instance I was reading about a fast inverse square root method that uses the magic number:
0x5f3759df
which was improved by Chris Lamont to use the number:
0x5f375a86

both of which reveal a whole set of interesting mathematics/computer graphics code libraries.

And ironically also brought up the slashdot (juveniles) initial search,  on "fuck" which ultimately leads to the most reassuring comments in source code: "Shit happens" .

For those interested the method is used in a processing library for particle physics:
paper here:

--joshua
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