+2009-11-04 Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
+
+ * sysdeps/powerpc/fpu/e_sqrt.c: Fix spelling of (Newton-)Raphson.
+ * sysdeps/powerpc/fpu/e_sqrtf.c: Likewise.
+
2009-10-30 Holger Hans Peter Freyther <zecke@selfish.org>
* malloc/memusagestat.c (main): Fix spelling in an error message.
/* The method is based on a description in
Computation of elementary functions on the IBM RISC System/6000 processor,
P. W. Markstein, IBM J. Res. Develop, 34(1) 1990.
- Basically, it consists of two interleaved Newton-Rhapson approximations,
+ Basically, it consists of two interleaved Newton-Raphson approximations,
one to find the actual square root, and one to find its reciprocal
without the expense of a division operation. The tricky bit here
is the use of the POWER/PowerPC multiply-add operation to get the
The argument reduction works by a combination of table lookup to
obtain the initial guesses, and some careful modification of the
generated guesses (which mostly runs on the integer unit, while the
- Newton-Rhapson is running on the FPU). */
+ Newton-Raphson is running on the FPU). */
#ifdef __STDC__
double
/* complete the INSERT_WORDS (sx, sxi, xi1) operation. */
sx = iw_u.value;
- /* Here we have three Newton-Rhapson iterations each of a
+ /* Here we have three Newton-Raphson iterations each of a
division and a square root and the remainder of the
argument reduction, all interleaved. */
sd = -(sg * sg - sx);
/* The method is based on a description in
Computation of elementary functions on the IBM RISC System/6000 processor,
P. W. Markstein, IBM J. Res. Develop, 34(1) 1990.
- Basically, it consists of two interleaved Newton-Rhapson approximations,
+ Basically, it consists of two interleaved Newton-Raphson approximations,
one to find the actual square root, and one to find its reciprocal
without the expense of a division operation. The tricky bit here
is the use of the POWER/PowerPC multiply-add operation to get the
The argument reduction works by a combination of table lookup to
obtain the initial guesses, and some careful modification of the
generated guesses (which mostly runs on the integer unit, while the
- Newton-Rhapson is running on the FPU). */
+ Newton-Raphson is running on the FPU). */
#ifdef __STDC__
float
sg = t_sqrt[0];
sy = t_sqrt[1];
- /* Here we have three Newton-Rhapson iterations each of a
+ /* Here we have three Newton-Raphson iterations each of a
division and a square root and the remainder of the
argument reduction, all interleaved. */
sd = -(sg * sg - sx);