[A83] Re: Pythagorean's theorem
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[A83] Re: Pythagorean's theorem
> Does anyone know of a good routine for Pythagorean's theorem? I wrote a
> quick and dirty one that relied on a 1000 byte lookup table, but it has
> proven to not be accurate enough. I suppose that I could do a much
> better job myself, but I would prefer not to reinvent the wheel if I do
> not have to.
>
What exactly do you want? A distance formula? The tricky part is taking
the square root fast. You could have a look at the Friden algorithm.
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