NAME atan2 - angle to point SYNOPSIS atan2(y, x, [,eps]) TYPES y real x real eps nonzero real, defaults to epsilon() return real DESCRIPTION If x and y are not both zero, atan2(y, x, eps) returns, as a multiple of eps with error less than abs(eps), the angle t such that -pi < t <= pi and x = r * cos(t), y = r * sin(t), where r > 0. Usually the error does not exceed abs(eps)/2. Note that by convention, y is the first argument; if x > 0, atan2(y, x) = atan(y/x). To conform to the 4.3BSD ANSI/IEEE 754-1985 math lib, atan2(0,0) returns 0. EXAMPLE ; print atan2(0,0), atan2(1,sqrt(3)), atan2(17,53,1e-100) 0 ~.52359877559829887307 ~.31038740713235146535 LIMITS none LINK LIBRARY NUMBER *qatan2(NUMBER *y, *x, *acc) SEE ALSO acos, asin, atan, cos, epsilon, sin, tan ## 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. ## 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. ## ## @(#) $Revision: 30.1 $ ## @(#) $Id: atan2,v 30.1 2007/03/16 11:10:42 chongo Exp $ ## @(#) $Source: /usr/local/src/cmd/calc/help/RCS/atan2,v $ ## ## Under source code control: 1994/03/19 01:40:26 ## File existed as early as: 1994 ## ## chongo /\oo/\ http://www.isthe.com/chongo/ ## Share and enjoy! :-) http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/