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Title: How does the calculator find values of sine (or cosine or tangent)?
Post by: kotu on October 31, 2016, 08:31:14 PM
I did not know this

http://www.homeschoolmath.net/teaching/sine_calculator.php (http://www.homeschoolmath.net/teaching/sine_calculator.php)
Title: Re: How does the calculator find values of sine (or cosine or tangent)?
Post by: aetios on October 31, 2016, 09:25:27 PM
Very interesting, thanks for sharing :D
Title: Re: How does the calculator find values of sine (or cosine or tangent)?
Post by: Yuki on November 01, 2016, 04:50:06 AM
Yep, pretty interesting. Calcualtors usually use an approximation based on basic operations and it usually does the job up to the precision of the calculator and it shows up instantly, but I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, some used lookup tables.
Title: Re: How does the calculator find values of sine (or cosine or tangent)?
Post by: kotu on November 01, 2016, 05:53:44 AM
I think I read that the definitions of these functions are implementation-specific, so could be