From: Ada novice <ycalleecharan@gmx.com>
Subject: Re: Arctan: to use with single or with double arguments?
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 14:34:14 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2010-09-25T14:34:14-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b46080eb-8039-4155-be8a-fce86ebf0db6@f25g2000yqc.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: i7lcea$n9q$1@tornado.tornevall.net
On Sep 25, 7:31 pm, Jeffrey Carter
<spam.jrcarter....@spam.not.acm.org> wrote:
> On 09/25/2010 01:44 AM, Ada novice wrote:
>
>
>
> > In my expression: Z = Force * Sin (A) then it was unclear to me if A
> > in Sin (A) should be limited to -pi/2 to
> > pi/2 or can can it from to -pi to pi.
>
> OK. I can talk about what Ada provides, but I can't help you with domain questions.
>
> --
> Jeff Carter
> "We'll make Rock Ridge think it's a chicken
> that got caught in a tractor's nuts!"
> Blazing Saddles
> 87
It's ok. There's a good article on Arctan and Arctan2 at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atan2
After reading that article, I decided to use Arctan2. I don't really
know why Arctan exists in the first place :).
Cheers
YC
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-25 21:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-24 21:32 Arctan: to use with single or with double arguments? Ada novice
2010-09-24 21:55 ` Jeffrey Carter
2010-09-25 8:44 ` Ada novice
2010-09-25 17:31 ` Jeffrey Carter
2010-09-25 21:34 ` Ada novice [this message]
2010-09-26 4:02 ` jpwoodruff
2010-09-26 8:21 ` Ada novice
2010-09-26 7:31 ` Jeffrey Carter
2010-09-26 8:24 ` Ada novice
2012-02-11 0:26 ` Jack Mitchell
2012-02-11 1:11 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-02-11 8:53 ` Simon Wright
2012-02-11 10:46 ` AdaMagica
2012-02-11 15:29 ` Simon Wright
2012-02-11 16:21 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-02-11 16:47 ` Simon Wright
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