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Re: Sine and Cosine Accuracy


On May 26, 2005, at 2:12 PM, Paul Koning wrote: 
What does (b) mean?  What if anything are its limitations?  Is
returning 1.2e27 as the result for a sin() call authorized by (b)?  I
would not have expected that, but I can't defend that expectation
based on a literal reading of the text...


b) means that (-a)*(b-c) can be changed to a*(c-b) and other reassociation
opportunities.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski

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