Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sdccsu3.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!vaxine!wjh12!genrad!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdccsu3!ee171bbr From: ee171bbr@sdccsu3.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lang Subject: Implementation of scientific functions. Message-ID: <1905@sdccsu3.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Jun-84 13:55:59 EDT Article-I.D.: sdccsu3.1905 Posted: Fri Jun 8 13:55:59 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Jun-84 04:56:22 EDT References: <221@west44.UUCP>, <1047@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Organization: U.C. San Diego, Computer Center Lines: 10 How does one implement scientific funtions in a high-level language. ?!? I have written a compiler for a small language and want to add a floating point library to it. One suggestion I received was to have a table of known values and to interpolate all others. (ie a table of sine values) Yah, that would work (except for square roots), but that is the quick and dirty way. Anyother suggestions would be greatly appreciated.