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> It also gets in the way of elegance and truth. That’s quite subjective. I happen to find trigonometry to be elegant and true. I also agree that trigonometri
by jagged-chisel 7mo ago
> It also gets in the way of elegance and truth.
That’s quite subjective. I happen to find trigonometry to be elegant and true.
I also agree that trigonometric functions lack efficiency in software.
- def-pri-pub 7mo ago>> It also gets in the way of elegance and truth. Where did that come from in the article?
- jagged-chisel 7mo agoI revisited that article and ... now I have no idea. Maybe I stumbled into some other trig-related article and came back here. Or maybe this one had some A/B content going on? The only thing I remember at this point is that I copied and pasted that sentence (I didn't type it.) Even search doesn't find the sentence anywhere but HN.
- FEELmyAGI 7mo agoSearch finds that sentence on this blog post https://iquilezles.org/articles/noacos/ https://iquilezles.org/articles/noacos/
- jagged-chisel 7mo agoThanks for finding it! Still not sure how I got there while thinking I was at "Even Faster Asin()..."