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Re: Re: Simplifying ArcTan

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  • Subject: [mg55550] Re: [mg55541] Re: [mg55526] Simplifying ArcTan
  • From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
  • Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 03:42:32 -0500 (EST)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

But why shouldn't

FullSimplify[ArcTan[Cos[x], Sin[x]],
-Pi < x <= Pi && x != 0]

simplify to x? After all, the two argument ArcTan works for all combinations
of arguments, except ArcTan[0, 0] and even that gives Interval[{-Pi, Pi}].

ArcTan[0, 3]
Pi/2

David Park
djmp at earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/

From: Florian Jaccard [mailto:florian.jaccard at he-arc.ch]
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net

It does !

But you have to avoid 2 mistakes :

1) The brackets on wrong place
2) x may not be Pi/2

In[4]:=
FullSimplify[ArcTan[Cos[x], Sin[x]],
  x >= 0 && x < Pi/2]

Out[4]=
x

-----Message d'origine-----
De : fizzy [mailto:fizzycist at knology.net]
Envoyé : lun., 28. mars 2005 09:42
À : mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Objet : [mg55526] Simplifying ArcTan



Why does   FullSimplify[ ArcTan[ Cos[x], Sin[x] , x>=0 && x <= Pi/2 ]
not output  x ?


Thanks...jerry blimbaum





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