Re: Radians Or Degrees?

On 3/15/2024 1:59 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

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.

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 ;^D tooooooo big. :^)

Actually, I can think of one of my fractals that tries to scale back numbers that get too big.
https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XtscDl
When a complex number breaches an escape time barrier, my code simply scales it back, say z = z * .242, and tries the fractal again. It has the effect of exploding the fractal out beyond its original boundaries...

 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?