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Square root of a small number
- The recent post discusses an algorithm in quaternion and rotation matrices conversions.
- There is a risk of taking square root of a nearly negative number in floating point arithmetic.
- The post explores the need to handle cases where the argument for square root could be small or slightly negative.
- Authors suggest an alternative expression that is numerically less sensitive to avoid precision loss.
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