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reason enough to fail the interview (lemmy.world)

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[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

IIRC, Elite used lookup tables for trigonometric functions on certain target platforms (maybe the NES) because memory wasn't as much of a constraint as computing performance. It's a barrel of game compressed into a pint of code.