Re: Efficiency of math.h

From: *** T. Winter (***.Winter_at_cwi.nl)
Date: 02/26/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 00:41:19 GMT

In article <403D2216.1040808@jpl.nasa.gov> E.Robert.Tisdale@jpl.nasa.gov writes:
> Christian Bau wrote:
>
> > Since I have actually not used the acos() function _once_
> > in over twenty years of C programming,
>
> So... you're a newbie eh?

Hrm. The first language I used, Algol 60, did not even *have* the
arccosine as a function. It had only sin, cos and arctan from this
group. Only when I started programming in Fortran did I see the
ACOS as a standard function, but have actually never needed it.
Done quite a bit of numerical programming actually. Like implementing
an arccosine function, but never used it ;-). 

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