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   David Jones to Lawrence D'Oliveiro   
   Re: Angle Units For Trig Functions   
   23 Oct 24 04:06:26   
   
   From: dajhawkxx@nowherel.com   
      
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
      
   > On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 18:14:14 -0600, Louis Krupp wrote:   
   >   
   > > On 10/21/2024 10:26 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 05:35:25 -0000 (UTC), Steven G. Kargl wrote:   
   > > >   
   > >>> % gfcx -o z a.f90 && ./z 0.500000000      0.500089288   
   > > > >   
   > >>> One of these values is exact, and one of these raises FE_INEXACT.   
   > > >   
   > >> Does it work for 29° and 31° as well? What’s so special about 30°?   
   > >   
   > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niven%27s_theorem   
   >   
   > So a whole set of extra functions, just to get a nice result for one   
   > value?   
      
   Did you take a high school trigonometry class?   
      
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