Faster asin() was hiding in plain sight

Re:Faster asin() was hiding in plain sight by def-pri-pub on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @01:43PM (#47338729)

These are books that my uni courses never had me read. I'm a little shocked at times at how my degree program skimped on some of the more famous texts.

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Re:Faster asin() was hiding in plain sight by neutronicus on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @02:45PM (#47339541)

It is not a textbook, it is an extremely dense reference manual, so that honestly makes sense.

In physics grad school, professors would occasionally allude to it, and textbooks would cite it ... pretty often. So it's a thing anyone with postgraduate physics education should know exists, but you wouldn't ever be assigned it.

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Re:Faster asin() was hiding in plain sight by rendaw on Thursday March 12, 2026 @06:31AM (#47348753)

Presumably someone read it though, at some point, in order to be able to cite it.

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Re:Faster asin() was hiding in plain sight by neutronicus on Thursday March 12, 2026 @06:54AM (#47348960)

The relevant sections, at any rate

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Re:Faster asin() was hiding in plain sight by eesmith on Thursday March 12, 2026 @10:15AM (#47350825)

I didn't need Abramowitz and Stegun until grad school. In the 1990s. It was a well-known reference book for people at that level, not a text book.

For my undergrad the CRC math handbook was enough.

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