Re: [LCP]Linux sin() code

[Mohd Saifullah <saif@lantana.tenet.res.in>]

Thanks a lot for your kind help. What i am going to do is, writing a sine
function in ADSP 2181 processor. For that i thought i can copy Linux
sine function implementation. 

Thanks and Regards,
Saif

On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Angus Mackay wrote:

> just download it and grab what you want:
>   http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html
>

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Mike & Penny Novack wrote:

> Mohd,
>     I'm not sure what you are looking for here, how the standard Linux
> library functions do things like the trig functions OR the more general
> question, "How is something like that done?" (ie: what are the various
> ways that might be done, explanation of why the algorithm is correct,
> what are the tradeoffs in the algorithms, etc.).
> 
>     In the latter case what you want is not to look up how Linux does it
> (not likely to get the explanations you seek however good an approach
> might have been chosen) but one of the algorithm books. In a case like
> this, you might as well start with the "classics" (eg: have you tried
> Donald Knuth "Numerical Algorithms").
> 
> Mike
>