From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 19:12:28 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: doc: add Go 1.12 release note for trigonometric reductions in math
X-Git-Tag: go1.12rc1~84
X-Git-Url: http://www.git.cypherpunks.su/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5f699e400a0a982bcc3ad1ff864dca70b1255d8b;p=gostls13.git

doc: add Go 1.12 release note for trigonometric reductions in math

Worth mentioning because the results are not bit-for-bit identical.
This causes a test failure in github.com/fogleman/gg.

Updates #6794

Change-Id: I701f34927731fb5c658a1be271c04388e5e7e3f7
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/157417
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
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diff --git a/doc/go1.12.html b/doc/go1.12.html
index 568920df6d..e228d98a8c 100644
--- a/doc/go1.12.html
+++ b/doc/go1.12.html
@@ -553,6 +553,20 @@ for {
 
 </dl><!-- lib/time -->
 
+<dl id="math"><dt><a href="/pkg/math/">math</a></dt>
+  <dd>
+    <p><!-- CL 153059 -->
+      The functions
+      <a href="/pkg/math/#Sin"><code>Sin</code></a>,
+      <a href="/pkg/math/#Cos"><code>Cos</code></a>,
+      <a href="/pkg/math/#Tan"><code>Tan</code></a>,
+      and <a href="/pkg/math/#Sincos"><code>Sincos</code></a> now
+      apply Payne-Hanek range reduction to huge arguments. This
+      produces more accurate answers, but they will not be bit-for-bit
+      identical with the results in earlier releases.
+    </p>
+</dl><!-- math -->
+
 <dl id="math/bits"><dt><a href="/pkg/math/bits/">math/bits</a></dt>
   <dd>
     <p><!-- CL 123157 -->