Re: tan,atan,sin and cos functions

Andrew Y Ng (ayn@ngbert.org)
Tue, 18 Feb 1997 15:52:26 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:

> Andrew Y Ng <ayn@ngbert.org> writes:
> >well, the taylor expansions should work...  :)
> >
> >/ayn
> >
> >On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Percy Perez wrote:
> >> Has anyone come up with an equivalent to the fuctions:
> >>   tan()
> >>   atan()
> >>   sin()
> >>   cos()
> 
> I don't understand the problem. libwww-perl is built on perl,
> and perl has sin, cos, atan2 etc. built in. 

yeah, i guess PP wanted to use something instead of the built in func's
in Perl.

/ayn

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