From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: Arctan: to use with single or with double arguments?
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:31:35 -0700
Date: 2010-09-26T00:31:35-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <i7mtm5$ei9$1@tornado.tornevall.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b46080eb-8039-4155-be8a-fce86ebf0db6@f25g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>
On 09/25/2010 02:34 PM, Ada novice wrote:
>
> After reading that article, I decided to use Arctan2. I don't really
> know why Arctan exists in the first place :).
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!"
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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 [this message]
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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