NAME avercos - inverse versed trigonometric cosine SYNOPSIS avercos(x [,eps]) TYPES x number (real or complex) eps 0 < real < 1, defaults to epsilon() return real DESCRIPTION Returns the inverse versed trigonometric cosine of x to a multiple of eps with error less in absolute value than .75 * eps. This function is sometimes called averc, or arcvercos, is equivalent to: avercos(x) = acos(x - 1) EXAMPLE ; print avercos(.5, 1e-5), avercos(.5, 1e-10), avercos(.5, 1e-15), avercos(.5, 1e-20) 2.0944 2.0943951024 2.094395102393195 2.09439510239319549231 ; print avercos(2), avercos(-5), avercos(2 + 3i) 0 3.14159265358979323846-2.47788873028847500481i 1.26319267726418536931-1.86416154415788242834i LIMITS 0 < eps < 1 LINK LIBRARY NUMBER *qavercos_or_NULL(NUMBER *q, NUMBER *epsilon); NUMBER *qavercos(NUMBER *q, NUMBER *epsilon); COMPLEX *c_avercos(COMPLEX *c, NUMBER *epsilon); SEE ALSO sin, cos, tan, cot, sec, csc asin, acos, atan, acot, asec, acsc versin, coversin, vercos, avercos aversin, acoversin, covercos, acovercos epsilon ## Copyright (C) 2023 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. ## 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. ## ## Under source code control: 2023/09/05 23:40:24 ## File existed as early as: 2023 ## ## chongo /\oo/\ http://www.isthe.com/chongo/ ## Share and enjoy! :-) http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/