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ramshorns | 3 years ago

In that range, just returning x would be way better. Maybe even perfect actually - if x is less than 10^-16, then the error of x^3/6 is less than the machine precision for x.

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adgjlsfhk1|3 years ago

the error isn't when x is small. it's when sin(x) is small. the problem happens for x near multiples of pi