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Re: Trigometric Functions

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Originally Posted by Rickertsen2
Nope. Write your own. Since calculating a Taylor/McLauren series or whatever on the fly with the PIC isn't exactly practical there are several approaches
Even though using the taylor/McLauren Series is not that fast on a PIC, you are going to have enough power and time to run the standard C-library math functions unless you are doing a tremendous amount of processing and using all your interruputs. That and using the Math library is quick and easy. Granted, if you want to, you can use the above mentioned methoda, it just takes some work to set up. It may have just been my team, but we didn't have any problem with lack of processing power last year.
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