UDF to calculate sine

I was asked to calculate sine using UDF.. using pow is not allowed... i did the following way...

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <conio.h>
int fact(int num);
float powe(float base, int power);
float sine(float x);
int main(void)
{
    float xx,x;
    printf("Enter the angle in degree : ");
    scanf("%f",&xx);
    while(xx>=360)
        xx=xx-360;
    if (xx>=270) xx=xx-360;
    if(xx>=180 && xx<270) xx= xx-180;
    if(xx>90 && xx<180) xx=180-xx;
    x=3.141592654/180*xx;
    printf("Sin %d = %.4f",(int)xx,sine(x));
    getch();
    return 0;
}

float sine(float x)
{
    int i;
    float sine=0;
    for(i=1;i<=10;i++)
        sine=sine+powe(-1,i+1)*(powe(x,2*i-1)/fact(2*i-1));
    return sine;
}

int fact(int num)
{
    int i,p=1;
    for (i=1;i<=num;i++)
    {
        p=p*i;
    }
    return p;
}

float powe(float base , int power)
{
    int i;
    float ans=1;
    for(i=0;i<power;i++)
        ans=ans*base;
    return ans;
}

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if i dont use the codes in red, it cant calculate if the value of degree is higher... is there any other simpler way to create this function..?

sin x = x - x^3/3! + x^5/5! - x^7/7! + x^9/9!......................

that was the formula i used to calculate sine

Are you sure your series isn't supposed to take a radian value for the angle, rather than degrees?

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Mats

the input is in degree but it has to be converted into radian for calculating the value of sine...

Also, as an addition to what matsp said, I don't think this code even works. It will calculate 29!, which is way too high for any usual integer in C.

i checked... it works .... but still i reduced the loop count to 10 now...