"FastMath" contains fractions of constants
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                 Key: MATH-688
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-688
             Project: Commons Math
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Gilles
            Assignee: Gilles
            Priority: Trivial
             Fix For: 3.0


Fractions such as 1.0 / 3.0, 1.0 / 5.0, ... could be replaced with static final 
constants.
In "asinh", for example, the change can sometimes result in more than halving 
the computation time (when the argument is in the range of values where the 
constants are used).

In absolute times, the gain is not huge, amounting to something like 5 ms for 
10 million computations.

And, of course, the downside will be that these values will be computed at the 
loading of "FastMath", leading to an additional penalty of about 16 divisions 
at initialization... :)


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