Re: FLASH: anyone written an arctangent function for flash?

[John Andrew Morrison]

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?


Thanks,

John


Matt Wobensmith wrote:


> Hi Kurt -

>

> You wrote:

>

> >I need arctangent

>

> Try this (taken from www.zincroe.com/flash - "distance" sample):

>

> 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

>

> Fun!

>

> Matt

>

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