Sujet : Re: Angle Units For Trig Functions
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.lang.fortranDate : 24. Oct 2024, 05:47:06
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On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 02:17:15 -0000 (UTC), Steven G. Kargl wrote:
One of these values is wrong.
Only if you assume the input numbers were somehow “exact” or “perfect” to
begin with.
There’s an old principle in computing: “Garbage In, Garbage Out”.
You seem to be missing that argument reduction for sind(x)
is much easier than argument reduction for sin(x).
But that only worked for one angle, and for nothing else.