Re: Math functions? (Particularly transcendental ones)

[Bart Lateur]

On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:48:01 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:

>At 12:35 AM 9/11/2001 +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
>>On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 17:13:44 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>>
>> >Who the heck is going to override arctangent? (No, don't tell me, I don't
>> >want to know)
>>
>>Perhaps you do. Think BigFloat. Or Complex.
>
>I'm not too worried about bigfloats, since the precision loss you get 
>converting the argument to a float isn't a big deal. (All the 
>transcendentals are only good to four or six places anyway, so...) 

Perhaps that might just be the reason to overload them? Somebody might
want higher precision transcendentals? It won't be fast...

-- 
        Bart.