Re: Mathematica and Lisp
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- Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 05:54:52 -0500 (EST)
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Reverse the order of what? ArcTan of one argument has only one argument and
how can that be reversed? What has two arguments is the coordinate
specification {x, y} and they are not reversed in ArcTan[x, y].
It is the one argument form ArcTan[y/x] that seems poorly designed and would
probably only be used when one knows the quotient and not x and y - so there
wouldn't be anything to reverse.
David Park
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From: Richard Fateman [mailto:fateman at cs.berkeley.edu]
(simple example: why does Mathematica reverse the order of arguments to
arctan of 2 args?)
RJf