this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2023
879 points (92.0% liked)

Memes

45725 readers
1155 users here now

Rules:

  1. Be civil and nice.
  2. Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] llama@midwest.social 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In HS trig class I asked the teacher what was the actual logic behind the tan function, and she said "well it's just programmed into your calculator" and I said I realized that but how did it work, she told me to go ask the AP calc teacher.

[โ€“] kogasa@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

CORDIC algorithm