Sine and Cosine Accuracy

[Steven Bosscher]

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