Re: Why isn't math universal?

From: Thomas Magma (somewhere_at_overtherainbow.com)
Date: 09/01/04 

Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 20:13:20 GMT

Thanks for all the responses. I guess I was just taking for granted that
numbers are numbers and math is math.

The perfect world I lived in just came crashing down all around me.

"Thomas Magma" <somewhere@overtherainbow.com> wrote in message
news:rWmZc.279639$M95.264941@pd7tw1no...
> Hi,
>
> I just wrote some DSP code in Java and ported it over to EVC for a PDA.
> Apparently EVC has a problem with the sin() of large numbers. What's up
with
> this? I need to sin() large numbers. Any suggestions?
>
> Am I the only one that thinks that C, C++, and the MS foundation classes
are
> a mess, and should be abolished?
>
> Thomas
>
>

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