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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 14:27:27 -0800
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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Subject: Re: sin, cos ??
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Paul Derbyshire wrote:
> 
> > const long double pi = 4*atan(1);
> 
> It won't work in C, and calling a function instead of using a manifest
> constant seems like a waste.

... not to mention the possibility for roundoff error, especially since
`atan' calculates only in `double' precision.
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Nate Eldredge
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