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From: Ada novice <ycalleecharan@gmx.com>
Subject: Re: Arctan: to use with single or with double arguments?
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 01:24:34 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2010-09-26T01:24:34-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dddf2cc2-640c-4878-8ce9-bf9ba13b3736@f6g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: i7mtm5$ei9$1@tornado.tornevall.net

On Sep 26, 9:31 am, Jeffrey Carter
<spam.jrcarter....@spam.not.acm.org> wrote:
> I presume because there are some cases where one has a single-valued tangent
> that my be used in Arctan (Tangent), but not X and Y values for Arctan (Y, X).
>
> --
> Jeff Carter
> "We'll make Rock Ridge think it's a chicken
> that got caught in a tractor's nuts!"
> Blazing Saddles
> 87

Yes I guess so. Even simple things can easily create confusion. The
Arctan and Arctan2 functions
are well-explained in Norman Cohen's Ada book on page 90.




  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-26  8:24 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
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 [this message]
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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