Re: Math functions? (Particularly transcendental ones)

[Matthew Cline]

On Saturday 08 September 2001 09:00 am, Dan Sugalski wrote:

> Okay, I'm whipping together the "fancy math" section of the interpreter
> assembly language. I've got:
>
> sin, cos, tan         : Plain ones
> asin, acos, atan      : arc-whatevers
> shinh, cosh, tanh     : Hyperbolic whatevers
> log2, log10, log      : Base 2, base 10, and explicit base logarithms
> pow                   : Raise x to the y power
>
> Can anyone think of things I've forgotten? It's been a while since I've
> done numeric work.


Sorry for being clueless, but why are "fancy math" operators being included 
in the opcodes, rather than being callable functions?  Does each builtin 
function have an opcode?

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