Calculating Trigonometric Functions
Problem
You need to compute sine, cosine, and other trigonometric functions.
Solution
Use the trig functions in java.lang.Math
. Like java.lang.Math.random( )
, all the methods of the Math
class are
static, so no Math
instance is necessary. This
makes sense, as none of these computations maintains any state. Here
is a program that computes a few trigonometric values and displays
the values of
E
and
PI
that are available in the math library:
// Trig.java System.out.println("Java's PI is " + Math.PI); System.out.println("Java's e is " + Math.E); System.out.println("The cosine of 1.1418 is " + Math.cos(1.1418));
Java 1.3 (Java 2 JDK 1.3) includes a new class,
java.lang.StrictMath
, which is intended to perform most of
the same operations with greater cross-platform repeatability.
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