Re: Possible Bug in ArcTan ?
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- Subject: [mg64784] Re: Possible Bug in ArcTan ?
- From: "Jens-Peer Kuska" <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 19:28:04 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Uni Leipzig
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Hi, why can ArcTan[] have two arguments ArcTan[x,y] ... Regards Jens "JCDenton" <post4uw at web.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:du6o44$5rg$1 at smc.vnet.net... | Hi Group! | | I am describing resonant electrical systems with Mathematica. So there | is a lot of dealing with complex numbers and functions. One important | function is: | | phi=ArcTan[Im/Re] | | This function is zero when Im = 0. The problem is, that when I plot | this function it shows some strange behaviour near this zero point. It | looks somehow, as if the function values are multiplied with -1 or | something like that. I also tried to calculate a table an plot this | with gnuplot where the stepsize was 0.005. I was the same strange | situation. So I am sure it is not the Plot function that is buggy but | the ArcTan itself. I also tried the table with step size 0.05 and I get | the "right" picture with gnuplot. Is this a known bug? I have not found | something about it yet. | | I realy need this function, since it is a very important operation in | complex calculation. | | Thank you! |