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  • If you want to do it yourself instead of using a math library, then my immediate thought is tp write out and calculate the Taylor series of your function. sin(x) is basically x +x^3 + x^5 +… with appropriate constants (look them up on wikipedia) so then sin(x)/x is the same thing but you divide all the parts by x so you’re gonna have c + x^2 + x^4 + … Now just add more parts in a while loop until the error term is small enough or you have spent some maximal number of allowed iterations and you’re good.














  • Why is adoption a thing in this way though? People compare AUR to github which seems very apt, but on Github no-one can come and take over the URL of an abandoned repo for rhemselves, if someone wants to start maintaining and the old owner is MIA, they have to make a fork. Why doesn’t AUR work the same way but instead allows anyone to take over any abandoned project with no checks?