[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #48307] sinc loses precision for large arguments

[Dan Sebald]

Follow-up Comment #27, bug #48307 (project octave):

"which just shows that square-rooting algorithms are a little more numerically
accurate. With a series computation, all those multiplications accumulate
errors, or if we truncate the series then we are inherently tossing
precision."

Eh, actually it's the limited precision of the input value.  Computing sqrt(3)
is analogous to exactness of the input value.


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