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Reverse-engineering the Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC

126 points · 11 comments · pwg

  1. drob518 · · focus · HN ↗
    The combination of numerical methods and low-level hardware is fascinating. Those 20th century engineers were both smart and creative.
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