--- In [email protected], "John Matthews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I couldn't say which is 'better' out of Taylor series or Chebyshev > polynomials, although the authors of Spectrum BASIC tended to go for > small code size rather than ultimate speed in order to fit a BASIC > interpreter into 16k.
And in case you weren't aware, the Z80 which 'powered' (and I use the term loosely) Spectrum was an 8 bit CPU with no instructions for integer multiple/divide, never mind floating point :-)
