Re: How to use floating point in a module?

[Horst von Brand]

Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> said:

[...]

> 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.
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