# _mm256_rcp_ps

Computes approximate reciprocals of float32 values. The corresponding Intel® AVX instruction is VRCPPS.

## Syntax

extern __m256 _mm256_rcp_ps(__m256 a);

## Arguments

a | float32 source vector

## Description

Performs a computation of the reciprocal of eight single-precision floating point elements of the source vector a and returns the result as a vector.

## Returns

Result of the reciprocal operation.

Parent topic: Intrinsics for Arithmetic Operations