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|    Steven G. Kargl to Lawrence D'Oliveiro    |
|    Re: Angle Units For Trig Functions    |
|    23 Oct 24 14:38:17    |
      From: sgk@REMOVEtroutmask.apl.washington.edu              On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 06:25:02 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:              > On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 07:59:24 +0200, R Daneel Olivaw wrote:       >       >> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:       >>       >>> On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 04:06:26 -0000 (UTC), David Jones wrote:       >>>       >>>> Did you take a high school trigonometry class?       >>>       >>> You seem obsessed with that.       >       > So your favourite functions return an exact result for sin 30°. Do they       > return an exact result for cos 30° as well?       >              Nope. For REAL x, COSD(x) returns an exact result for all N >= 0       that satisfies 60+N*360 < 2**23.              --       steve              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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