[sdiy] Harmonic bandwidth

[Scott Gravenhorst]

Nicholas Gregorich <nicksdsu at mac.com> wrote:
>Scott Gravenhorst wrote:
>> One thing I just noticed, in the documentation for the sin() 
>function for C, it says "The sin() > function may lose accuracy 
>when its argument is far from 0.0". 
>
>I've done the same test [32 harmonics with 0 phase versus 32 harmonics 
>with constant random phases] using MATLAB and heard significant 
>differences between the 2 clips [which really surprises me]. I don't 
>think what you're hearing is inaccuracies from the C sin() 
>implementation. MATLAB uses 64-bit floating point by default.
>
>Nick.

*That* is surprising.  I would hope that MATLAB's implementation is about as
accurate as it can get.


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