Here's a snippet I chewed out of a newsgroup ages ago .... to generate a 
sine table in 41 bytes. I don't quite follow the properties it is based on, 
as my attempts to generate sinetables always result in me going round in 
circles differentiating sine =P.
;#############################################################
;MakeSinTable creates a 0-1023 integer sine table
;(c) 1993 by Mikko Reinikainen
;#############################################################
MakeSinTable:
    push ds
    pop es
    mov di,offset SinTable
    mov si,offset SinTable+2*256
    push di
    push si
    mov cx,129
    sub ax,ax
L1:
    mov [si],ax
    dec si
    dec si
    stosw
    mov dx,cx
    shl dx,1
    add ax,dx
    Loop L1
 
    pop di
    pop si
    mov cx,256
L2:
    lodsw
    neg ax
    stosw
    Loop L2
    ret
Sintable:
... :  /\__  _)  grooven^designs - grooviest coders this side of the bong!
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