Hi,
the book is fortunately available via
http://bookfi.org/dl/546944/f9a577
many thanks for your (plural!) help and hints!
Jan
Norman Beam schrieb:
> Jan.
>
> If you have a good library available, see if they have a copy of the
> book 'Software Manual for the Elementary Functions' by William J. Cody
> Jr. and William Waite, 1980, Prentice Hall. The book was for compiler
> writers and assembly coder who needed to implement efficient finite
> word length floating point.
>
> Regards,
>
> Eph
>
>
> On 2/15/12 11:07 AM, Jan Mueller wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I am just writing an article about how pocket calculators compute
>> values of trigonometric functions (especially Volders CORDIC
>> algorithm). I also contacted Casio and TI about it but they gave no
>> information because of company secrets. Could anyone explain to me
>> how Maxima solves it? sin would be sufficient for me
>> Jan
>>
>>
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