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My Useless Contribution to the GNU C Sine Function

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My Useless Contribution to the GNU C Sine Function

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Post by awelm » Wed, May 25, 2022, 5:07 PM UTC

My Useless Contribution to the GNU C Sine Function
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Re: My Useless Contribution to the GNU C Sine Function

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Post by PaulHoule » Wed, May 25, 2022, 5:18 PM UTC

I'm amazed they use the Taylor expansion instead of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORDIC

or something else.

Re: My Useless Contribution to the GNU C Sine Function

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Post by WalterGR » Wed, May 25, 2022, 8:53 PM UTC

Math co-processors had support for fast trig functions. Does that support not exist in modern CPUs?

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