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Fast sinus and cosinus approximation

written by jedi on February 8th, 2008 @ 09:29 PM

Computing sine and cosine are expensive operations.

Besides the traditional lookup tables and taylor series, here's a fantastic solution using a quadratic curve which blows everything away in terms of performance and accuracy.

Fast and accurate sine/cosine approximation

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