From: Seebs <usenet-nospam@...>
Date: 2009-12-26T19:30:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Trig value errors

On 2009-12-26, Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> wrote:
> Why would you want to make them less accurate? Surely it would be a bug 
> if the values returned were less accurate than the representation 
> allows?

Because our hero is obsessed with the unrounded results of
intrinsically-rounded cases, and hasn't thought about the question
of whether, say, sin(45) or sin(60) is returning "exactly" the
right value.  Special-casing zeroes implies a deep failure to
understand trig.

-s
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