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From: wetter@cup.portal.com (Pierce T Wetter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: How to Cosine
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Date: 27 Oct 89 01:31:21 GMT
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   You want to use something called a CORDIC algorithm. If I remember 
correctly it uses shifts to do the divisions and multiplications by powers of
two, and uses some algoritm that only requires divison and multiplication
by powers of two. CORDIC is the name of the machine the algorithm was 
implemented for.

Pierce