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Subject: Re: FLASH: anyone written an arctangent function for flash?
From: John Andrew Morrison
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 00:25:09 +0100

I didn't mean to diminish your work Matt, it is a great piece
compared to some of the other estimation scripts I have seen;
very straight forward.

John

Matt Wobensmith wrote:

> Hi John -
>
> You wrote:
>
> >Maybe I'm naive, but wouldn't it be better to use the
> >loadvariable capabilities to run a perl, PHP or ASP
> >script which has the functions built in?
>
> What, you don't like my script? :>)
>
> To answer your question, yes. Having an external scripting language with a
> built-in math object would be more accurate and make more sense. However,
> there are times where it would certainly be, um, nice to have an arctan
> function in Flash.
>
> I'm sure there are better ways to do arctan in Flash 4 - don't ask me to
> write one, I don't know how - so I'm sure the group can answer that. This
> was just one sample.
>
> Matt
>
> ps - that code again, since I love it so much! You have to admit that it has
> a certain charm to it.
>
> Comment: one big taylor series to calculate arctan
> Set Variable: "x" = input
> Set Variable: "arctan" =
> x-(x*x*x/3)+(x*x*x*x*x/5)-(x*x*x*x*x*x*x/7)+(x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x/9)-(x*x*x*x*x
> *x*x*x*x*x*x/11)+(x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x/13)-(x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x
> *x/15)+(x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x/17)-(x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x
> *x*x*x*x/19)+(x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x/21)-(x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x
> *x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x/23)
> Set Variable: "output" = arctan
>
> ---------------
> Matt Wobensmith
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