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I have a few vintage programmable HP calculators that implement CORDIC on their 4-bit CPUs. You can also program them to calculate the Taylor expansion of sin() as another approximate method.

If you liked this, it’s worth reading Donald Knuth seminal “The Art of Computer Programming” which explains a number of mathematical algorithms by example.





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