Re: Efficiency of math.h

From: E. Robert Tisdale (E.Robert.Tisdale_at_jpl.nasa.gov)
Date: 02/26/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 17:17:55 -0800

*** T. Winter wrote:

> E.Robert.Tisdale writes:

> The first language I used, Algol 60,

Me too. On a CDC 6600.

> 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.

I only have a little experience

http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/arith/1995/7089/00/70890163abs.htm

> Like implementing an arccosine function, but never used it ;-).