12 Jun
2010
12 Jun
'10
3:27 a.m.
A few years ago I was delighted to find that calculating pi to arbitrary precision can be made simple enough for even a programmer to understand. I finally got around to finding an algorithm for computing sines and cosines that similarly relies only on high school algebra and trig. I wrote it up here with pictures and source code: http://credentiality2.blogspot.com/2010/06/few-years-ago-my-brother-in-law-a...