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From: William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Advice saught on math functions
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 12:49:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020712164931.GA1830@node1.opengeometry.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020712162229.GC2348@werewolf.able.es>

On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 06:22:29PM +0200, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> 
> On 2002.07.12 Alan Cox wrote:
> >> Are these functions which are supplied by the FPU?  I've looked
> >> through the fpu emulation headers and exp() is the only one I can find
> >
> >You can't use FPU operations in the x86 kernel.
> 
> Are you to worried about precission ? Can't you just do your sin() etc.
> in fixed point ? (and move all your fpdata to fixed point, of course)

Or, you can use polynomial approximations.

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William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-12 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-12 14:08 Advice saught on math functions Kirk Reiser
2002-07-12 14:39 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-12 14:52   ` Kirk Reiser
2002-07-12 15:32     ` Alan Cox
2002-07-12 16:04       ` Kirk Reiser
2002-07-12 16:31         ` Alan Cox
2002-07-12 16:21           ` Dave Jones
2002-07-15  9:46           ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-07-16  5:26             ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-07-15 10:03         ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-07-15 14:10           ` Kirk Reiser
2002-07-15 16:38             ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-07-12 15:46     ` Nicolas Pitre
2002-07-12 16:30       ` Kirk Reiser
2002-07-12 17:03         ` Nicolas Pitre
2002-07-12 16:22   ` J.A. Magallon
2002-07-12 16:49     ` William Park [this message]
2002-07-13 14:00   ` Pavel Machek
2002-07-13 17:10     ` Alan Cox
2002-07-12 14:46 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-12 15:42 ` Sandy Harris
2002-07-12 16:46   ` Kirk Reiser
2002-07-14  0:20   ` Erik Andersen
2002-07-14 14:17     ` Sandy Harris
2002-07-14 16:49       ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-07-14 17:01       ` Thunder from the hill

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