NAME ltol - "leg to leg", third side of a right-angled triangle with unit hypotenuse, given one other side SYNOPSIS ltol(x, [,eps]) TYPES x real eps nonzero real return real DESCRIPTION Returns sqrt(1 - x^2) to the nearest multiple of eps. The default value for eps is epsilon(). EXAMPLE > print ltol(0.4, 1e-6), hypot(0.5, 1e-6) .6 .866025 LIMITS abs(x) <= 1 LINK LIBRARY NUMBER *qlegtoleg(NUMBER *q1, *epsilon, BOOL wantneg) SEE ALSO hypot ## Copyright (C) 1999 Landon Curt Noll ## ## Calc is open software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under ## the terms of the version 2.1 of the GNU Lesser General Public License ## as published by the Free Software Foundation. ## ## Calc is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ## ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY ## or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General ## Public License for more details. ## ## A copy of version 2.1 of the GNU Lesser General Public License is ## distributed with calc under the filename COPYING-LGPL. You should have ## received a copy with calc; if not, write to Free Software Foundation, Inc. ## 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. ## ## @(#) $Revision: 29.2 $ ## @(#) $Id: ltol,v 29.2 2000/06/07 14:02:33 chongo Exp $ ## @(#) $Source: /usr/local/src/cmd/calc/help/RCS/ltol,v $ ## ## Under source code control: 1995/10/05 04:52:27 ## File existed as early as: 1995 ## ## chongo /\oo/\ http://www.isthe.com/chongo/ ## Share and enjoy! :-) http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/