(I have no idea why POLYNOMIAL is defined in terms of POLYNOMIAL2 in this way. Neither is used anywhere else in the file.) and these numbers are close to, but not the nearest floats to, the ...

This post is about how sin and cos are calculated in the c language standard math library on a typical Linux system. Because Python floats are really c doubles, what I write here will apply to Python ...

The sin () function in python’s math module takes an argument (x). A variable named step is passed to math.sin (). It starts from 0 and increases by 0.25 on each iteration of the main loop of the ...