Re: Efficiency of math.h

From: Mike Wahler (mkwahler_at_mkwahler.net)
Date: 02/26/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 03:26:54 GMT

"E. Robert Tisdale" <E.Robert.Tisdale@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote in message
news:403D2216.1040808@jpl.nasa.gov...
> 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?

I also have been using C for a long time (about 17 years).
I've never used *any* of the 'math.h' functions in my
production code (well, there might be one or two I've forgotten
about, but you get the idea). That's because my application
domains never needed them. So am I a 'newbie' too?

-Mike

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