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What is the time complexity of computing sin(x) to t bits of precision?
Short version of the question: Presumably, it's poly$(t)$. But what polynomial, and could you provide a reference?
Long version of the question:
I'm sort of surprised to be asking this, because ...
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Fast evaluation of polynomials
Hello everybody !
I was reading a book on geometry which taught me that one could compute the volume of a simplex through the determinant of a matrix, and I thought (I'm becoming a worse computer ...
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Reducing the error of Algorithms by assigning variables formulas instead of values
Let me first give the intuition for my question: Suppose that you want to use a ruler to mark $n$ points in a line on a page, with 1 cm distance between neighbor points. There are two ways:
1- Mark ...