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Houshalter
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Approximating sin(x) to 5 ULP with Chebyshev polyn...
As far as I can tell, the standard library functions don't generally handle numbers that large. Try it yourself in the browser, e.g. `Math.sin(Math.pow(10, 15))`. Floating point rounding errors make computing the sine pointless.
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