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Re: S Tables Question
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2002 Oct 23, 00:32 -0700
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2002 Oct 23, 00:32 -0700
The S Table used to be included in the Almanac, but the one I have at hand doesn't have them anymore. However, the method is Ageton's, and the tabular values are just logs of sine and cosine multiplied by a constant. Ageton uses -100,000 as the multiplier, and a few years ago I saw that Pepperday (?) uses some other constant in his S Table. Actually I'm not sure about -100,000 in the Ageton table, but it's something like that. I'm too lazy to go check right now.
