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Re: Sine and Cosine Accuracy
- From: Steven Bosscher <stevenb at suse dot de>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Cc: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>, Uros Bizjak <uros at kss-loka dot si>, Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic dot com>
- Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 23:16:56 +0200
- Subject: Re: Sine and Cosine Accuracy
- References: <429638A1.3080102@kss-loka.si> <m364x562uy.fsf@uniton.integrable-solutions.net>
On Friday 27 May 2005 00:26, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Uros Bizjak <uros@kss-loka.si> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> | Out of curiosity, where could sin(2^90) be needed? It looks rather
> | big angle to me.
>
> If it was and angle! Not everything that is an argument to sin or cos
> is an angle. They are just functions! Suppose you're evaluating an
> approximation of a Fourrier series expansion.
It would, in a way, still be a phase angle ;-)
Gr.
Steven