Even Faster Asin() Was Staring Right at Me

Re:Even Faster Asin() Was Staring Right at Me by jagged-chisel on Monday March 16, 2026 @12:20PM (#47401033)

> It also gets in the way of elegance and truth.

That’s quite subjective. I happen to find trigonometry to be elegant and true.

I also agree that trigonometric functions lack efficiency in software.

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Re:Even Faster Asin() Was Staring Right at Me by def-pri-pub on Monday March 16, 2026 @12:22PM (#47401059)

>> It also gets in the way of elegance and truth.

Where did that come from in the article?

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Re:Even Faster Asin() Was Staring Right at Me by jagged-chisel on Monday March 16, 2026 @01:23PM (#47401952)

I revisited that article and ... now I have no idea. Maybe I stumbled into some other trig-related article and came back here. Or maybe this one had some A/B content going on?

The only thing I remember at this point is that I copied and pasted that sentence (I didn't type it.) Even search doesn't find the sentence anywhere but HN.

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Re:Even Faster Asin() Was Staring Right at Me by FEELmyAGI on Monday March 16, 2026 @01:35PM (#47402108)

Search finds that sentence on this blog post https://iquilezles.org/articles/noacos/

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Re:Even Faster Asin() Was Staring Right at Me by jagged-chisel on Monday March 16, 2026 @01:45PM (#47402248)

Thanks for finding it! Still not sure how I got there while thinking I was at "Even Faster Asin()..."

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