Johannes Schönberger <j...@icoost.com> added the comment: stupid, it is much better to just use the modulo operator. The same works with cos...
def sin(x): """Return the sine of x as measured in radians. >>> print sin(Decimal('0.5')) 0.4794255386042030002732879352 >>> print sin(0.5) 0.479425538604 >>> print sin(0.5+0j) (0.479425538604+0j) """ x %= pi() getcontext().prec += 2 i, lasts, s, fact, num, sign = 1, 0, x, 1, x, 1 while s != lasts: lasts = s i += 2 fact *= i * (i-1) num *= x * x sign *= -1 s += num / fact * sign getcontext().prec -= 2 return +s def cos(x): """Return the cosine of x as measured in radians. >>> print cos(Decimal('0.5')) 0.8775825618903727161162815826 >>> print cos(0.5) 0.87758256189 >>> print cos(0.5+0j) (0.87758256189+0j) """ x %= pi() getcontext().prec += 2 i, lasts, s, fact, num, sign = 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1 while s != lasts: lasts = s i += 2 fact *= i * (i-1) num *= x * x sign *= -1 s += num / fact * sign getcontext().prec -= 2 return +s ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7770> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com