Re: Radians Or Degrees?

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From	Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: Radians Or Degrees?
Date	Fri, 15 Mar 2024 14:16:33 -0700
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"Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> writes:
> On 3/15/2024 3:23 AM, Terje Mathisen wrote:
>> Michael, I for the main part agree with you here, i.e. calculating
>> sin(x) with x larger than 2^53 or so, is almost certainly stupid.
> [...]
>
> ;^D tooooooo big. :^)
>
> Now, wrt the results, arbitrary precision for trig is useful, in
> say... Deep fractal zooms...
>
> Zooming in really deep in say something like this, well the precision
> of trig can become an issue:
>
> https://paulbourke.net/fractals/multijulia/
>
> Trig would be used, say, in rectangular to-from polar forms wrt
> getting the n-ary roots of a complex number?

I can see how computing sin(x) with high precision for "reasonable"
values of x would be useful, but does any of that benefit from being
able to compute sin(2^53) accurately?  (Since I'm posting to
comp.lang.c, I'll mention that "^" is meant to be exponentation, not
bitwise xor.)

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
Working, but not speaking, for Medtronic
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  Re: Radians Or Degrees? mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2024-03-14 17:34 +0000
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    Re: Radians Or Degrees? Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-03-15 14:15 +0200
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                Re: Radians Or Degrees? bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2024-03-17 01:57 +0000
                Re: Radians Or Degrees? Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-03-16 19:57 -0700
                Re: Radians Or Degrees? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-03-17 13:10 +0100
                Re: Radians Or Degrees? Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-03-17 11:06 +0200
                Re: Radians Or Degrees? Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-03-17 11:34 +0200
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  Re: Radians Or Degrees? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-03-18 15:18 -0400
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          Re: Radians Or Degrees? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-03-20 12:59 -0400
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              Re: Radians Or Degrees? Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> - 2024-03-21 08:52 +0100
                Re: Radians Or Degrees? Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-03-21 14:51 +0200
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            Re: Radians Or Degrees? Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-03-21 00:03 +0200
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