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BrainCodingArts
BrainCodingArts
I think we need more articles about optimizing mathematical functions (at least me thinks so) Functions like - Natural Logarithms - Sin and Cos - Interpolation (Especially if that is applicable to matrices)
Ainokea
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Karja
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Original post by BrainCodingArts
I think we need more articles about optimizing mathematical functions (at least me thinks so)
Functions like
- Natural Logarithms
- Sin and Cos
- Interpolation (Especially if that is applicable to matrices)


Do you mean optimizing the ways they are implemented in for example C++ by writing more specialized and faster versions doing essentially the same thing? Or do you mean articles describing numerical approximations that are faster than having more correct calculations? The latter would be one of those "great to have lying around for curiousity's sake" things, but not really applicable to most people, methinks. It's not like complicated mathematical functions seem to be the bottleneck as a rule, eh? ...And, to critizise even more: if speed of those calculations is that much of a deal, isn't it easier and faster to just do lookup tables? But nonetheless, it'd be interesting.

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