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Standard functions are available in almost all programming languages. But how could we actually compute them by using only the 4 basic arithmetic operations \(\{+, -, \times , /\}\)? Algorithms for computing standard functions on computers were developed some 60 years ago.
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Gander, W. (2015). Some Elementary Functions. In: Learning MATLAB. UNITEXT(), vol 95. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25327-5_4
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