Georg Bauhaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| Bernhard R. Link wrote:
| 
| > naming any range smaller than some [-50pi,100pi] "valid" could
| > really make me crazy...
| 
| No one is asking for sine to be restricted in this way.

Howwever, someone came in lectureing us on:

   Yes, but within the defined mathematical ranges for sine and cosine
   -- [0, 2 * PI) --

(which let me wonder whese those maths come from).

| Some are asking for the freedom to request this or that
| kind of sine computation to be generated, because they know
| that for *their* range of numbers, this or that kind of sine
| computation does what they want.

I have no trouble with that.  But that is very different from the
claim I quoted above.

-- Gaby

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