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My Useless Contribution to the GNU C Sine Function (awelm.com)
8 points by awelm 1490 days ago
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PaulHoule 1490 days ago
I'm amazed they use the Taylor expansion instead of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORDIC

or something else.

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WalterGR 1490 days ago
Math co-processors had support for fast trig functions. Does that support not exist in modern CPUs?
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