PUFFT—The Purdue University fast FORTRAN translator
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1) (cos ~,-1 x) + sin :c cos '~-~ :c' e handles only those eases in which n is both positive
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- Authors
- Rosen, S., Spurgeon, R. A., & Donnelly, J. K.
- Affiliations
- Purdue University West Lafayette (US)
- Venue
- Communications of the ACM
- Published
- 1965-11
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 661-666
- ISSN
- 0001-0782 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-7317
- OpenAlex
- W1965093370
- Cited by
- 40
- References
- 5
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2021: 4 · 2019: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 6.24
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Communications of the ACM (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Logic, programming, and type systems
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Hardware and Architecture › Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Modeling and Simulation › Mathematical and Computational Methods
- Keywords
- compilers, Purdue University, source-to-source translation, trigonometric identities
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