Nice, that worked. It's even faster. yours yours+opt claude --------------------------------------- Time (ns) 40.9 36.4 3

Nice, that worked. It's even faster. yours yours+opt claude --------------------------------------- Time (ns) 40.9 36.4 38.7 sqrt/iter 3 2 1 Instructions 207 187 241 Edit: it looks like the claude algorithm fails at high eccentricities. Gave chatgpt pro more context and it worked for 30min and only made marginal improvement on yours, by doing 2 steps then taking a third local step. https://gist.github.com/achille/23680e9100db87565a8e67038797b27d https://gist.github.com/achille/23680e9100db87565a8e67038797...