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01-15-2005, 08:50 AM
How do computers find the values of sine and cosine, and square roots? Is it an estimation algorithm?
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01-15-2005, 12:39 PM
Sine and cosine are functions, i think.

square is an estimate
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01-15-2005, 05:14 PM
Sine, you could try the taylor series. For SQR you could try the newton method.
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