Re: Just Found a Website That's Priceless

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From: "Andreas Johansson" <and_yo@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: Just Found a Website That's Priceless


> John Cowan wrote:
> >Dennis Paul Himes scripsit:
> >
> > >     There was just a thread about this on sci.math, only with
radians
> >and
> > > 0.739085133215.
> >
> >IIRC this is much slower.
>
> It is. Starting on 1 dot something required a couple dozen
reiterations
> 'fore it reached the attractor (to the precision of my calculator).
Using MS Windows 2000 Scientific Calculator, I reached
0.73908513321516064165531208767387 in 178 iterations from
0.9998477415310881129598107686798 .

> Oh, and someday I'd like to see the list of all subjects that've never
been
> discussed on Conlang. I imagine it to be frighteningly short.
>
>                                                Andreas
>
> >  The attractor of sin is 0, but it takes the
> >patience of Job to get all the way there.
20 iterations from 90 using degrees.  Forever using radians.  (same
calculator).  This depends on the presition of the calculator: a
calculator with inf decimal places will never reach the limit, even for
cos(x) in radians.

The attractor, if any, should be when f(x)=x.  For tan this should also
be 0, but it diverges (in radianas, it converges in degrees).

-- Carlos Th