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From: luigi scarso via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: atan2 function
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2022 15:05:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG5iGsBRwmkA4Je_gO95NT4bFa+e=PQcdV+mU9MmraOMJuBxwA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A62ACF57-AC88-4B8C-ABDE-FBA0E8DD9C5D@bittext.nl>


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On Fri, 14 Oct 2022 at 14:58, Taco Hoekwater via ntg-context <
ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote:

>
>
> > On 14 Oct 2022, at 14:26, Alan Braslau via ntg-context <
> ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote:
> >
> > Are you using MP in scaled integer or in doubleprecision mode?
> >
> > I have not looked into the MP angle operator code, but my suspicion is
> that it is based on some super-clever John Hobby scheme optimized for
> scaled integer calculations.
>
> The scaled version of “angle” is a handwritten approximation in web, not
> using
> any math library. I really doubt that that code is faster than calling
> atan2()
> on a modern machine, but I’ve kept it in because using a lib might give
> slightly
> different results.
>

iirc, in metapost  the whole scaled number system has no dependency  from
any external math library
(I have not checked the lmtx source yet).

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      reply	other threads:[~2022-10-14 13:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-13  5:40 Thangalin via ntg-context
2022-10-13  6:42 ` Max Chernoff via ntg-context
2022-10-13 19:51   ` Thangalin via ntg-context
2022-10-14  0:35     ` Max Chernoff via ntg-context
2022-10-14  8:07       ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2022-10-14 14:40         ` Alan Braslau via ntg-context
2022-10-14 18:59           ` Thangalin via ntg-context
2022-10-14 22:42             ` Alan Braslau via ntg-context
2022-10-14 23:09               ` Thangalin via ntg-context
2022-10-15  1:22                 ` Alan Braslau via ntg-context
2022-10-14 12:26     ` Alan Braslau via ntg-context
2022-10-14 12:58       ` Taco Hoekwater via ntg-context
2022-10-14 13:05         ` luigi scarso via ntg-context [this message]

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