The page Ron Larson contains information about the professor with that name, who wrote a textbook, called " Calculus of a Single Variable : Early Transcendental Functions ".
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The case of the purely transcendental functions ( which do not involve roots of polynomials ) is relatively easy and was implemented early in most computer algebra systems.
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The article cubic equations goes into great deal on how you can solve the cubic equation algebraically, not just in terms of transcendental functions, without using complex numbers.
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So the delineation of rapidity as hyperbolic parameter of beam-space is a reference to the seventeenth century origin of our precious transcendental functions, and a supplement to spacetime diagramming.
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It is possible to use this fact to construct fast algorithms for calculating elementary transcendental functions and some classical constants, in particular, the constant [ [ pi | ] ].
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The 16-bit Intel x86 processors up to and including the 80386 do not include 80387 math coprocessors to add hardware floating-point and transcendental function capabilities to the 8086 through 80386 CPUs.
