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WWU Schedule Generator
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This requires python; it's probably easiest to run on linux or WSL.
First install the prerequisites:

laramiel

Approximating transcendental functions is an art beginning with simple expansions involving taylor series, and then, often, quickly moving to Chebyshev polynomials and other more advanced techniques. Numerical recipies has a chapter on this topic:

• Numerical Recipes http://www.aip.de/groups/soe/local/numres/bookcpdf/c5-8.pdf
• Approximation Theory and Approximation Practice https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/trefethen/ATAP/ATAPfirst6chapters.pdf

NASA's published approximations:

• https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19720010958.pdf