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authorAkila Welihinda <akilawelihinda@ucla.edu>2021-12-12 10:35:03 -0800
committerPaul Zimmermann <Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr>2021-12-13 15:31:05 +0100
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sysdeps: Simplify sin Taylor Series calculation
The macro TAYLOR_SIN adds the term `-0.5*da*a^2 + da` in hopes
of regaining some precision as a function of da. However the
comment says we add the term `-0.5*da*a^2 + 0.5*da` which is
different. This fix updates the comment to reflect the
code and also simplifies the calculation by replacing `a` with `x`
because they always have the same value.

Signed-off-by: Akila Welihinda <akilawelihinda@ucla.edu>
Reviewed-by: Paul Zimmermann <Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr>
Diffstat (limited to 'sysdeps/ieee754')
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/s_sin.c10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/s_sin.c b/sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/s_sin.c
index 7d89e3dfc2..a412c3642d 100644
--- a/sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/s_sin.c
+++ b/sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/s_sin.c
@@ -51,16 +51,16 @@
 #define POLYNOMIAL(xx) (POLYNOMIAL2 (xx) + s1)
 
 /* The computed polynomial is a variation of the Taylor series expansion for
-   sin(a):
+   sin(x):
 
-   a - a^3/3! + a^5/5! - a^7/7! + a^9/9! + (1 - a^2) * da / 2
+   x - x^3/3! + x^5/5! - x^7/7! + x^9/9! - dx*x^2/2 + dx
 
    The constants s1, s2, s3, etc. are pre-computed values of 1/3!, 1/5! and so
    on.  The result is returned to LHS.  */
-#define TAYLOR_SIN(xx, a, da) \
+#define TAYLOR_SIN(xx, x, dx) \
 ({									      \
-  double t = ((POLYNOMIAL (xx)  * (a) - 0.5 * (da))  * (xx) + (da));	      \
-  double res = (a) + t;							      \
+  double t = ((POLYNOMIAL (xx)  * (x) - 0.5 * (dx))  * (xx) + (dx));	      \
+  double res = (x) + t;							      \
   res;									      \
 })