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From: "Kenny Millar" <yaroze@ntlworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Maths Functions?
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 18:13:45 +0100
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There are only 256 possible values for the X and Y positions of the sticks,
so a look up table would be small and fast. No?

-Kenny

"Chris Wallace" <chrisw666@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:9mdt9h$1sb6@www.netyaroze-europe.com...
> ok, thanks for the function, although if its slow it probably wont work
for
> what im doing. I need to find the angle that the left analogue stick is
> pointing in and how far in that direction. Im using pythag for the
distance
> and need the square root to find it. This of course is done ever frame so
> needs to be quite simple.. =\
> Chris
>
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