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Re: Need formulas for arcsin and arctan
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2006 Mar 27, 17:20 -0700
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2006 Mar 27, 17:20 -0700
On 27 Mar 2006, at 11:54 AM, Paul Hirose wrote: > The Windows calc has a hellacious number of digits. The square root > of 2 > gives 1.4142135623730950488016887242097. I have no idea if all these > digits are valid. The square root of 2 is 1.414213562373095048801688724209698078569671875376948 (done with a special multiple precision math package called gmp), so yes, it appears to be correct. Dan
