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#38807 - 2003-04-04 02:42 PM Sin Cos Tan
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Are there any Sin, Cos, Tan functions available for kix?
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#38808 - 2003-04-04 02:52 PM Re: Sin Cos Tan
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AFAIK, no !

Tell me what one could need these for and I may write those [Wink]
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#38809 - 2003-04-04 03:14 PM Re: Sin Cos Tan
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Well... Basic Mathematic function.. there a lots and lots of ways to use them.
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#38810 - 2003-04-04 03:16 PM Re: Sin Cos Tan
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... I know that for sure as my educational background is electronics

Oh well, just wait and see If I got the time [Roll Eyes]
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#38811 - 2003-04-04 03:19 PM Re: Sin Cos Tan
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What are you trying to do with Cos, Tan, Etc?

[Smile]
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#38812 - 2003-04-04 03:20 PM Re: Sin Cos Tan
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Can you provide a specific example?

Why would you need this in a login script?

Now, if you are developing a KiXForms calculator, that would be a different story. [Smile]

I believe there was one done for SQRT..

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#38813 - 2003-04-04 04:46 PM Re: Sin Cos Tan
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See for example Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics under http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Sine.html , which contains approximation formulas for SIN().
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#38814 - 2003-04-04 04:50 PM Re: Sin Cos Tan
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Think I know where R. is coming from. These functions have much use in certain classes of windows (forms) applications. Especially the kind that employ drawing ... I could have used these myself a while ago, I think Jooel ended-up writting a table driven version of the functions but they aren't very accurate.

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#38815 - 2003-04-04 10:19 PM Re: Sin Cos Tan
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ermmmm ....

I took some time and already gave up on the first function sin() ... near to impossible (for me at least) using kix intrinsic methods [Frown]

All what I got so far is the knowledge that the nearest approach for e within KiXtart would be 2.71828182845905 (which is not precise enough I think)

Another rather crude thing I created within this short excursion to the world of ars mathematica is my attempt to code a pwr() func which allows one to calc x^y (OF COURSE y only allows integers !)



function pwr($x,$y)
    dim $i
    $pwr = cdbl($x)
    for $i = 2 to $y
        $pwr = $pwr * $x
    next
endfunction



should be better intrinsic [Roll Eyes]

Well, I also gave up to only understand what the heck an imaginary number is ... only so much : my scientific Casio Calculator gave up calculating Square Root of -1 [Eek!]

On the other side I would really like to see those very basic mathemtical function in KiX [Big Grin]

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#38816 - 2003-10-14 09:05 PM Re: Sin Cos Tan
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Hey Guys!
I just began looking for this very thing. Here is the Application that someone above ask for... I am currently writing a KiXforms Program to Calculate the Heel Height of a Truss. This requires the use of Cos and Sqr. I realize that this program is much more than a logon script ... but Kix's flexability is part of what makes it a great tool. - Shane

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#38817 - 2003-10-14 09:17 PM Re: Sin Cos Tan
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As I already posted above, you can either use approximation formulas, use a lookup table with pre-calculated values, or write your own custom COM-DLL that provides math functions.
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#38818 - 2003-10-14 10:42 PM Re: Sin Cos Tan
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shawn, you wrong.
jooel wrote his own functions to calculate...
afaik, this is inside coord() udf.
no tables, pure approximation with floating numbers and all.

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#38819 - 2003-10-15 05:24 AM Re: Sin Cos Tan
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well...

SQRT() A square root function

SQR() A Square and or raise to the power of X function

hmm... sounds like a good research/project to do [Big Grin]

[ 15. October 2003, 05:25: Message edited by: Bryce ]

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