Re: A92: Floating-point Support
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Re: A92: Floating-point Support
Well, if you impliment all that stuff division and multiplication and
stuff...you should know that trig is pretty easy with a power series. For
instance, for sin(x), you need x in radians, and it would probably be best to
reduce it to + or - 2pi or so. Then you can approximate sin(x) with: x
-x^3/3! + x^5/5! - x^7/7! ... it gives a very close approximation after adding
only a few terms (seven terms or so would probably be good) try it out on a
calculator, see how close it gets you. If you like it, and you write those
routines, there's also a power series for cos(x). I don't think it would work
well for tan(x) though. Anyhow, sin(x) and cos(x) would be good for start on
trig, once you have the basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and
division implimented.
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