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Simple Series to calculate tan(x)
09-12-2016, 08:28 PM
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RE: Simple Series to calculate tan(x)
(09-12-2016 10:09 AM)Willy R. Kunz Wrote:  Anyway, here' the result. With tolerance = 1E-8, we get
tan(pi/4) = 0.999968175

This shows very nicely that if the last added term drops below a given tolerance, this does not automatically mean that the sum of all subsequent terms does so either. Here the tolerance was set to 1E–8 but the error in the result is > 3E–5.

In other words: with the given algorithm you cannot be sure that the tolerance level is actually met.

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Simple Series to calculate tan(x) - Namir - 09-07-2016, 05:59 PM
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