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Re: Sine and Cosine Accuracy
Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de> writes:
| Bernhard R. Link wrote:
|
| > naming any range smaller than some [-50pi,100pi] "valid" could
| > really make me crazy...
|
| No one is asking for sine to be restricted in this way.
Howwever, someone came in lectureing us on:
Yes, but within the defined mathematical ranges for sine and cosine
-- [0, 2 * PI) --
(which let me wonder whese those maths come from).
| Some are asking for the freedom to request this or that
| kind of sine computation to be generated, because they know
| that for *their* range of numbers, this or that kind of sine
| computation does what they want.
I have no trouble with that. But that is very different from the
claim I quoted above.
-- Gaby