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Re: What to do with autonomous

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Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday
BTW, we were not computing our trig in the conventional way. We employed many optimizations on these calculations that I would consider standard for this situation, and the result was that converting our heading and distance to an (x,y) coordinate took only a few clock cycles.
Dave,

Did you mean non-standard? If you indeed meant standard, would you mind pointing us to some references? (We wouldn't mind, though, if you decided you wanted to share your non-standard methods too. )
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