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From: nacer@mist.cs.orst.edu (Abdenacer Moussaoui C.)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Rewrite of trig functions?
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Date: 29 Jan 88 18:36:21 GMT
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Earlier there was a discussion about the wisdom behind not supporting
raise_to_the_power operator or function, I think the question was initiated
from a Prof/Teacher.
1) Have any of you attempted or assigned to your students a rewrite of sin()?
2) Mac-Laurin series provided a good mean of doing this?? I couldn't find
  Taylors'??
3) How to get the maximum digits of accuracy as will allow your host language,
  (ex: TP3 11 significant) ?

My 1st implementation is is "straight forward" from the formula if you want
to take a look at it, let me know.

4) Have and body peeked at the TP run-time library to see how they do it?

I take assembly too :-)

thank you.
--nacer