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Patricia Shanahan schrieb:
> However, I am curious about why you care about exactness in this

People might be interested in realiable calculation of
sin(x)/x and the like, since sin(x)/x is a fourier
transform of the rectangle function. But I must admit
that I am not working on some pressing stuff concerning
sin, the question arose more out of curiosity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinc_function

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