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Floating Point Approximations
Often we must create our own versions of trig and other functions. Perhaps the compiler's floating point package is too slow, or lacks precision. Sometimes it's so huge that doing a lousy cosine doubles the program's size. Regardless, there are lots of options other than relying on what the compiler provides.

This paper gives a number of simple floating point trig approximations. The code includes test cases to check for maximum error. This paper gives approximations for other functions like roots, exponentiation and logs.

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