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Fast and Accurate Trigonometric Functions on the HP-17BII Message #1 Posted by Gerson W. Barbosa on 12 Jan 2007, 5:31 p.m. To all who might be interested, just available at the Articles Forum: Fast and Accurate Trigonometric Functions on the HP-17BII Accurate? Surely! Fast? Well, kind of. But I wanted to make up a trilogy :-) Fast and Accurate Trigonometric Functions on the HP-12C Platinum Fast and Accurate Trigonometric Functions on the HP-12C Thanks Charles for first noticing the simpler equations were better. Regards, Gerson

Re: Fast and Accurate Trigonometric Functions on the HP-17BII Message #2 Posted by Karl Schneider on 14 Jan 2007, 1:25 a.m., in response to message #1 by Gerson W. Barbosa Hi, Gerson -- Thank you for posting your dedicated work in the Articles Forum. They are certainly worthy, and probably more appropriate there than in the Software Library, due to the applied-mathematics content. I expect that the HP-17BII programs will work on the HP-17B, as well? Regards, -- KS

Re: Fast and Accurate Trigonometric Functions on the HP-17BII Message #3 Posted by Gerson W. Barbosa on 14 Jan 2007, 2:37 a.m., in response to message #2 by Karl Schneider Hello Karl, I don't have an HP-17B but I think the equations should run just fine on it. I'd like to test the equations on the HP-17BII+ also. The HP-200LX was a good developing tool, but when solving for the inverse functions using the full-range equations I noticed the HP-17BII behaved differently. That's why I had to append the apparently useless terms to the cosine and tangent equations in the what I called IF-LESS EQUATIONS sets (that was an experiment I decided to keep). I have just included a note at the end about a even shorter minimax polynomial equation (see my reply to Charles, which ended up orphan). The minimax polynomial is accurate in the range -18 to 18 degrees, that is, +/- 90/5. It is then expanded to -90 to 90 degrees by means of sin 5.x = sin x * (sin2x * (16 * sin2x - 20) + 5) This doesn't improve the solving time but makes the equation shorter. Reducing the range even more would actually make the equation slower and longer. I think this is the right balance between size and speed. Regards, Gerson. Edited: 14 Jan 2007, 2:38 a.m.

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