Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: How to use floating point in a module? | | Date | Mon, 31 May 2004 09:39:12 -0400 | | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> said:
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> Why not scaled longs (or bigger), scalled to number of significant > digits. The Taylor series for the trig functions might be a painfull.
Trascendental functions are _not_ computed by series in practice, rational approximations (polinomial / polinomial) are used instead. Or interpolate in a smallish table. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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