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Subject: Re: Radians Or Degrees?
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On 3/15/2024 3:23 AM, Terje Mathisen wrote:
> Michael, I for the main part agree with you here, i.e. calculating 
> sin(x) with x larger than 2^53 or so, is almost certainly stupid.
[...]

;^D tooooooo big. :^)

Now, wrt the results, arbitrary precision for trig is useful, in say... 
Deep fractal zooms...

Zooming in really deep in say something like this, well the precision of 
trig can become an issue:

https://paulbourke.net/fractals/multijulia/

Trig would be used, say, in rectangular to-from polar forms wrt getting 
the n-ary roots of a complex number?