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Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
>> Well, the sine and cosine functions can't be computed by a finite number
>> of additions, subtractions, multiplications, divisions and exponents.
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> They can if you allow the parameters to be complex numbers (which is why
> trigonometric functions are included in the set of elementary functions).
OK, but that just brings us back to the fact that the exponential
operator has to be approximated. ;-)
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