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Re:How to pack ternary numbers in 8-bit bytes by hinkley on Thursday December 05, 2024 @03:09PM (#42332169)
Doom also famously redefined a circle as 256° and reworked all of their trigonometry and polar coordinate translations to match. And so the smallest increment of angle you could do in the game was around 85 arc minutes.
Re:How to pack ternary numbers in 8-bit bytes by kristianp on Friday December 06, 2024 @05:41AM (#42338451)
> famously redefined a circle as 256°

Famously? Where can I read about Doom's odd trigonometry?

Re:How to pack ternary numbers in 8-bit bytes by kristianp on Friday December 06, 2024 @06:15AM (#42338682)