Efficient approximations for the arctangent function

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 108-111

  Rajan, Sreeraman ^a   Wang, Sichun ^a   Inkol, Robert ^a   Joyal, Alain ^a  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ERRORS; FUNCTIONS; INTERPOLATION; OPTIMIZATION;

ARCTANGENT FUNCTION; LAGRANGE INTERPOLATION; MINIMAX OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES;

APPROXIMATION THEORY;

EID: 85032751520     PISSN: 10535888     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2006.1628884     Document Type: Article

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