Sinc function - and sinc neural networks - and function approximation for the former

Explicitly calling factorial and computing powers of x separately for each term in a Taylor series is not a good approach. Not only is this very slow (you have a lot of redundant computations!), but it can also overflow to 0*Inf if you compute enough terms.

See, for example, the new implementation of the cosc function in Base for an example of how to compute a Taylor series iteratively (to arbitrary precision), with specialized cases (evalpoly with hardcoded coefficients to a fixed order) for single and double precision.

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