@Thomas Klemm -> CORDIC Article

[Thomas Klemm]

(06-01-2014 12:12 PM)Paul Dale Wrote:  CORDIC has the big advantage that is can produce trigonometric, inverse trigonometric, logarithmic, exponential, hyperbolic and inverse hyperbolic functions using essentially the same algorithm.

In addition to that it can also produce the square root:

Quote:\((w)^{1/2}=(x^2-y^2)^{1/2}\) where \(x=w+\frac{1}{4}\) and \(y=w-\frac{1}{4}\)

It would never have occurred to my mind that this could be used. Solely for this idea it was worth reading the paper [1].

Cheers
Thomas

[1] A Unified Algorithm for Elementary Functions