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- From: irmen@cs.vu.nl (Irmen de Jong)
- Subject: Re: Integer Sine tables?
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- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 14:57:23 GMT
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- On 27 Feb 1996 20:36:42 GMT Stephan Schaem (sschaem@teleport.com) (Stephan Schaem) wrote:
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- : speaking of math... any idea how to find an aproximation of the curve
- : y = 1/(1/x) = x^2 using an incremental methode like: y = x+a , a+=b ?
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- hmmm ;-)
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- : (its just that its in my head right at this moment and I'm blank :)
- : Stephan
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- Anyway, to calculate x^2:
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- The differences between all squares form the sequence of odd numbers:
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- 0 - 1 - 4 - 9 - 16 - 25 ...
- 1 3 5 7 9 ...
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- So just add the next odd number to get the next square.
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- Cheers
- Irmen
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