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>"Bill" <foo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> The Beez' wrote:
>> > Hi!
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>> > Does anyone have some high level source for FSIN and FCOS words? Of
>> > course, FP words allowed ;-) BTW, FLN, F** or others are appreciated
>> > as well.
>> >
>> > Hans Bezemer
>> Consider "Computer Approximations" by John F Hart 1968 in the SIAM
series.
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>This text is often quoted but unfortunately long out of print. Public
>libraries and second-hand copies may be the only alternative.
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>It's ironic that algorithms and data useful to the public is ultimately
>subject to considerations such as whether a publisher feels it
>commercially viable to reprint.
Although I sympathize with that feeling very much, this may not
be the best example. This book may well be truly obsolete.
Those numbers that were hard to come by and had to be copied by hand
can now be generated in split seconds. Internet is teeming with
information about approximations.
For any function that has a derivative that can be expressed
analytically (e.g. sin(x^2) 2xcos(x^2) software on my site allows to
generate Chebychev approximations, with configurable range and
precision.
For the transputer Marcel Hendrix used a "fluffing" algorithm
that was published in Dr. Dobbs (before 1994).
Groetjes Albert
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