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There are tables for sin, cos and arctan, but these are only used for drawing the planet’s circles. All the ship-drawing and universe manipulation is done using the small angle approximation, so there’s no need for lookup tables.

Lots more info here:

https://www.bbcelite.com/explore/articles/deep_dive_pitching...



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