I was rather bored one night, and thus decided to try my hand at implementing a python version of newton's sqrt approximation method. This was heavily inspired by quake's famous inverse square root ...

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root Accuracy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root#Accuracy Compute the fast inverse ...

We’ve seen that Python provides us with quite a few conveniences “right out of the box.” Among these are built-in functions, that we as programmers can use—and reuse—in our code with little effort.