Sine and Cosine Accuracy

Gabriel Dos Reis gdr@integrable-solutions.net
Thu May 26 23:56:00 GMT 2005


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.

-- Gaby



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