Re^3: Perl oddities

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sin, cos, and atan2 are "primitive" functions.

Well, once you have a routine for sin, then cos is the same thing, but pi/2 sooner. And I'm fairly sure that's the way it's implemented in the libraries.

Using atan2 to do an inverse sin or cos is a bit of a walk in the park, but essentially I guess you have to find the 'Y' value once you have the 'X', then submit both to atan2, and that will give you the angle you're looking for.

That's a nice brain exercise right after lunch.

Alex / talexb / Toronto

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Re^4: Perl oddities by theorbtwo (Prior) on Mar 02, 2005 at 11:59 UTC
I suspect on most CPUs, it just uses the sin and cos opcodes of the native CPU. Implementing sin in terms of cos (or vice-versa) is just asking for problems, like the well-known results being a little off, since pi/2 cannot be exactly represented as a float (or as anything else in finite RAM).	[reply]

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