Thread: Sine (Sin) Algorithm Help

eep. whoops. looks like you're already there. nm.

Originally Posted by abachler

I didnt learn how to use the sigma until a few months ago, honestly never saw it through grade school high school, 4 years of college (electronics even) and 10 years in industry. I had to ask a friend of mine what it meant because I was explaining a training concept for neural networks to him and he wanted the formula in that format, lol.

Seriously? You must live in California. I simply do not know what I would do without summation notation when designing software on paper.

Nope, Illinois, then Missouri. When we moved down here in '84 I knew more than the teacher in computer class, so much so that he threw me out of class one day because I made him look like an idiot on several occasions. He was prattling on about every command taking exactly 2 bytes or something.

Good times. Yeah well certainly its no biggy if you weren't familiar with some notation. I am sure someone will jump in and argue that point, but its no thing at all. It would be nice to see books use it more, however. It would serve to closely extend the relationship between math and computer science. In other words, make math seem less scary looking for programmers who aren't as mathematically inclined as you and me.

Back on topic, can the program use inline assembly? I was thinking an SSE solution

I don't think so. But I'm not 100% sure. (I have no idea what it is actually..lol). But I'm having some issues with the main program. I'll post it and see what you guys think. It gets stuck after I enter in the number to figure out which place I should go in the switch statement. Anyways, here it is.

Code:

#include <fstream>    // fstream.h contains file sequential IO methods.
#include <stdlib.h> // stdlib.h contains the exit method.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include "mathlib.cpp"

using namespace std;

int main( )
{

	char fileOutName[25];
	char response;
	int n = 0;
	int choice = 0;
	int again = 1;
	float angle = 0.0;
	float sum = 0.0;
	float radius = 0.0;
	float surface = 0.0;
	float volume = 0.0;
	float height = 0.0;
	int filecount = 0;  //The number of lines in the file.

	FILE *outFile;			   // Logical output file name in program.

	//Gets the file out name and then checks to see if it already exists
	//If so then it asks for you to choose whether or not to override.
	printf("What is the name of the output file (max 25 characters)?");
	scanf("%s", &fileOutName);
	if((outFile = fopen(fileOutName, "r" )) != NULL )
		{
			printf("\nA file by the name %s exists.\n", fileOutName);
			printf("Do you wish to overwrite (Y or N): ");
			//Skip <cr> in buffer with "%*c", i.e., one character
			scanf("%*c %c", &response);

			if( (response == 'n') || (response == 'N') )
			{ // should close file first
				printf("\nProgram aborted to prevent overwirte!");
				exit(1);
			}
		}
		outFile = fopen( fileOutName, "wt" );
		if( outFile == NULL )
		{
			printf("Could not create the output file! Program terminating.");
			exit(1);
		}


		printf("What would you like to do? 1 for Sphere, 2 for Cylinder, 3 for float addition, 4 for sin.\n");
		scanf("%d", choice);
		switch( choice )
		{
		case 1:
			printf("What is the radius of the sphere?\n");
			scanf("%f", radius);
			sphere(radius, surface, volume);
			printf("The sphere with a radius of %f has a surface of %f and a volume of %f.\n", radius, surface, volume);
			fprintf(outFile, "The sphere with a radius of %f has a surface of %f and a volume of %f. \n", radius, surface, volume);
			printf("Go again? (1 for yes, 2 for no)\n");
			scanf("%d", again);
			break;
		case 2:
			printf("What is the radius of the cylinder?\n");
			scanf("%f", radius);
			printf("What is the height of the cylinder?\n");
			scanf("%f", height);
			volume = volCylinder(radius, height);
			printf("The cylinder with a radius of %f and a height of %f has a volume of %f.\n", radius, height, volume);
			fprintf(outFile, "The cylinder with a radius of %f and a height of %f has a volume of %f.\n", radius, height, volume);
			printf("Go again? (1 for yes, 2 for no)\n");
			scanf("%d", again);
			break;
		case 3:
			printf("How many floats are being processed? \n");
			scanf("%d", n);
			float x[10];
			for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
			{
				printf("What is the float?\n");
				scanf("%f", x[i]);
			}
			for (int j = 0; j < n - 1; j++)
			{
				for (int k = j + 1; k < n; k++)
				{
					if (x[j] > x[k])
					{
						int temp = x[j];
						x[j] = x[k];
						x[k] = temp;
					}
				}
			}
			sum = sumFloats(x, n);
			printf("The sum of the floats is %f. \n", sum);
			fprintf(outFile, "The sum of the floats is %f. \n", sum);
			printf("Go again? (1 for yes, 2 for no)\n");
			scanf("%d", again);
			break;
		case 4:
			double answer;
			printf("What is the angle? \n");
			scanf("%f", angle);
			answer = sine(angle);
			printf("The sin of angle %f is %f. \n", angle, answer);
			fprintf(outFile, "The sin of angle %f is %f. \n", angle, answer);
			printf("Go again? (1 for yes, 2 for no)\n");
			scanf("%d", again);
			break;
		default:
			printf("Quitting.");
			again = 2;
		}

	fclose(outFile);

	return 0;
}

Sigh... The sine function didn't work right. Any ideas on how to fix it?

Code:

double sine(float angle)
{
	#define EPSILON 0.000001
	int d = 1;
    double guess = 0;
    int i = 1;
    float x2p1 = angle;
    for(guess = angle; guess * guess - angle < EPSILON || guess * guess - angle < -EPSILON; guess = (x2p1 / (d *((i * 2) +1)*(i *2))))
	{
		x2p1 = x2p1 * angle * angle * -1;
		i = i +1;
	}
    return guess;
}

Please people, I really really need some help on this, I tried several things and none have worked. Any ideas or any help would be very much appreciated.

scanf("%s", &fileOutName); - not correct.

fileoutname is an array,so your statement should be

scanf("%s", fileOutName);

Thank you chakra, I figured out that first one with the & a while back, but I never realised about the fileoutname thing. I had it in almost all of my code and it still worked, so I'll try and remove it and see what happens.

My biggest problem is the sine function. The rest of the program works great, just not the sine function.

Code:

double sine(double x)
{
    int i,n;
    int sign = -1;
    
    double sum = x,power=x,fact = 1.0;
    for (i = 1; i < infinity; ++i)
    {
        power = power * x *x;
        n = (2*i+1); 
        fact = fact * n * (n-1); 
        sum += sign * power/fact;
        sign = -sign;
    }
    return sum;
}

I guess this should do. I am just a beginner. So you can just change the code to give a prof. look.

Okay, I implemented yours, laserlight, and I tested it and the answer that I got with setting the loop count or n to 15 wasn't close to the value that I got from my calculated value.