24 Oct
2001
24 Oct
'01
7:20 a.m.
roconnor@math.berkeley.edu wrote:
How about making default method for asin
asin x = atan(x/sqrt(1-x^2))
Can't be worse than the default for (**) ;-)
Oh, it can. As well as its own problems when x is close to 1, it inherits, through the default definition of sqrt, the problems of (**) when x is near 0. --brian