NAME acot - inverse trigonometric cotangent SYNOPSIS acot(x [,eps]) TYPES x real eps nonzero real, defaults to epsilon() return real DESCRIPTION Returns the acot of x to a multiple of eps with error less in absolute value than .75 * eps. v = acot(x) is the number in (0, pi) for which cot(v) = x. EXAMPLE ; print acot(2, 1e-5), acot(2, 1e-10), acot(2, 1e-15), acot(2, 1e-20) 0.46365 0.463647609 0.463647609000806 0.46364760900080611621 LIMITS none LINK LIBRARY NUMBER *qacot(NUMBER *x, NUMBER *eps) SEE ALSO asin, acos, atan, asec, acsc, epsilon ## Copyright (C) 1999,2021 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: 1995/11/13 03:49:00 ## File existed as early as: 1995 ## ## chongo /\oo/\ http://www.isthe.com/chongo/ ## Share and enjoy! :-) http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/