Timeline for Why use Fourier series instead of Taylor?
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| Nov 21, 2023 at 20:51 | comment | added | SargeATM | Why the down votes? | |
| Oct 30, 2023 at 18:37 | comment | added | SargeATM | @EmilioPisanty glibc uses both methods as shown in their implementation of sin(x): github.com/bminor/glibc/blob/… | |
| Oct 30, 2023 at 18:26 | comment | added | SargeATM | @EmilioPisanty In practice, the only other method for computing trig functions is table lookup. In which ultimately, the numbers for the tables came from truncated power series again polynomials. | |
| Oct 27, 2023 at 18:31 | comment | added | Emilio Pisanty | In practice, to compute values of sines and cosines you might indeed use polynomial approximations. But you might do something different. This answer is disingenuous and ultimately wrong. | |
| S Oct 27, 2023 at 18:23 | review | First answers | |||
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| S Oct 27, 2023 at 18:23 | history | answered | SargeATM | CC BY-SA 4.0 |