Re: Very strange behaviour of ArcTan[]
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- Subject: [mg102666] Re: Very strange behaviour of ArcTan[]
- From: Pillsy <pillsbury at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:07:42 -0400 (EDT)
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On Aug 17, 8:06 am, Alexey <lehi... at gmail.com> wrote: > I just have discovered some strange (buggy?) feature of ArcTan[] > function in Mathematica 5.2. Try the following; What you've discovered is that ArcTan has a definition for two arguments where ArcTan[x, y] gives you ArcTan[y/x], but correctly accounting for the signs of x and y. This is actually a pretty common bit of functionality to have access to; in the C standard library there's a two-argument function called atan2 that does the same thing, for instance. Cheers, Pillsy