From: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Cc: Shane Seelig <stseelig@mail.com>
Subject: Re: x87 asin and acos
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 14:57:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190223195702.GN23599@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190223150858.GM23599@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 10:08:58AM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 09:21:08AM -0500, Shane Seelig wrote:
> > Currently 'asin' uses the algorithm:
> > arcsin(x) == arctan(x/(sqrt((1-x)(1+x))))
> > If the following algorithm were to be used instead, an 'fadd' could be
> > removed.
> > arcsin(x) == arctan(x/(sqrt(1-x**2)))
>
> They don't seem to be numerically equal. For example, if x is smaller
> than sqrt(LDBL_EPSILON/2), 1-x**2 is 1, but (1-x)*(1+x) is not. I
> don't recall the process of writing the function in detail, but I'm
> pretty sure this matters to the result, especially since sqrt then
> expands the magnitude of the error.
After some discussion on irc, I think the above may be wrong. I'm not
sure if there are other cases where it can matter, but if not this is
probably a valid, and maybe useful, optimization.
Rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-23 19:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-23 14:21 Shane Seelig
2019-02-23 15:08 ` Rich Felker
2019-02-23 19:57 ` Rich Felker [this message]
2019-02-24 2:53 ` Damian McGuckin
2019-02-23 20:30 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2019-02-23 20:36 ` Szabolcs Nagy
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