sine of an angle in degree mode
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01-24-2018, 12:16 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-24-2018 12:20 PM by rflesch.)
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RE: sine of an angle in degree mode
Thomas Okken wrote:
"If PI SIN returns 0, you're either using CAS or the internal version of pi has the same number of digits as the PI function on the keyboard. — I don't understand the second part of this sentence. If the internal representation of pi has the same number of digits as as the PI function on the keyboard then I would get zero as a result of SIN PI?? On the 15C, "PI SIN" gives "-4.1E-10" (indicating the CORDIC algorithm with 10 digits is used). Aren't there two sources of error in the result that's displayed: (a) the finite number of digits of the internal representation of pi; (b) the approximative character of the algorithm? So I would think that "-4.1E-10" is not exactly the sine of the internal representation of pi in the calculator. |
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