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|    Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Steven G. Kargl    |
|    Re: Angle Units For Trig Functions    |
|    24 Oct 24 04:47:06    |
      From: ldo@nz.invalid              On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 02:17:15 -0000 (UTC), Steven G. Kargl wrote:              > One of these values is wrong.              Only if you assume the input numbers were somehow “exact” or “perfect”       to       begin with.              There’s an old principle in computing: “Garbage In, Garbage Out”.              > You seem to be missing that argument reduction for sind(x)       > is much easier than argument reduction for sin(x).              But that only worked for one angle, and for nothing else.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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