Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > Yeah, the problem with people who work only with angles is that they > tend to forget that sin (and friends) are defined as functions on > *numbers*, not just angles or whatever, and happen to appear in > approximations of functions as series (e.g. Fourier series) and therefore > those functions can be applied to things that are not just "angles".
To paraphrase the above: "Yeah, the problem with people who only work with Fourier series is that they tend to forget that sin (and friends) can be used in applications with angles that fall in a limited range, where the hardware intrinsics produce faster and more accurate results." I've worked on some pretty fancy DSP code in the last years, and some spherical trig stuff. Two different kinds of code with different needs. ..Scott
