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Re: Calculating Trigonometric Functions

Unread post by sm.joty » Sun Jan 08, 2012 10:37 pm

sabbir.yousuf wrote:Okay, here's a somewhat simpler and inefficient version -

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//we will write a function to calculate sine of a given value
//we will use MacLaurin Series for this purpose
//sinx = x - x^3 / 3! + x^5 / 5! - ......
double sin(double x) {
    double res = 0; //result variable
    int sign = 1; //sign of a particular term in the series, +/-
    double num = x; //num variable will denote the numerator of a particular term in the series
    double denom = 1; //denom variable will denote the denominator of a particular term in the series

    //it's not possible to calculate a infinite sum
    //it's not necessary either because later terms won't contribute much to the sum
    //so we will take first 50 odd terms
    for(int i = 1; i <= 100; i+=2) {
        res += (sign * num) / denom; // 'res += x' means 'res = res + x'
        num *= (x*x); //next numerator, note that each term is x^2 more than the previous one
        denom *= ((i+1)*(i+2)); //next denominator, note that i-th term should be (2*i+1)!
        sign *= -1; //sign alternates in successive terms
    }
    return res;
}
But bhaiya, C Compiler saying something like that,

In function 'sin':
error 'for' loop initial declaration are only allowed in C99 mod
note:use option -std=c99 or -std=gnu99 to compile your code
=== build finished: 1 errors, o warnings ===


i can't understand the first two line. :( :(
What can I do for compile it ???? :?:

(N.B: I used a main function also)
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Re: Calculating Trigonometric Functions

Unread post by sabbir.yousuf » Sun Jan 08, 2012 11:09 pm

Instead of declaring i in the for loop, you can declare i before. Like -

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int i;
for(i = 1; i <= 100; i+=2) {
}

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Re: Calculating Trigonometric Functions

Unread post by rakeen » Mon Nov 12, 2012 1:38 pm

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#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
   int i;
   double s=0,x,t=1;
   scanf("%lf", &x);
   for(i=1;i<=20;i++){
      s=s+t;
      t=t*((-x*x)/((i+1)*(i+2)));
   }
   printf("%lf",s);
   return 0;
   }
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Re: Calculating Trigonometric Functions

Unread post by rakeen » Mon Nov 12, 2012 1:49 pm

^ forgot to comment those...

x ia the value that we're gonna put in, and it must be in RADIAN.

As we won't be using math.h library thus we won't be using fact() function either. So, we are calculating the next term by multiplying a factor to the previous term, thus avoiding the factorial thing. You can also find the factorial of each denominator by using for loop. But it will show garbage if the value of $i$ gets a bit bigger.

In that program it will compute only upto 20 term. You can also write

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for(i=1;t<=0.000001;i++)
here the program will be out of the loop if the valure of $t$ gets too smaller(as it wont affect on the result of $sin(x)$).
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