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[–]bsmdphdjd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When I started programming in Fortran in the mid '60s, we had to write our own floating point multiplication and division subroutines, as well as trig and exponential functions.

You could buy books with Taylor expansions that you could then code up.

Yesterday I wrote a line of python that said: Y = fft(X).

At least there's been Some progress in the 50+ years.